Archive · 11 Dec 2025
Congress faces leadership crisis in Odisha
There is a big fight happening in the Odisha Congress party.
A senior leader named Mohammed Moquim wrote a letter to the party's top leader, Sonia Gandhi, saying that the current leader of the Odisha Congress, Bhakta Charan Das, is not doing a good job.
Moquim says that the party has lost many elections in a row, and the workers are feeling sad and confused.
He also mentioned that Das has lost his own elections three times and has different political ideas than the Congress party.
Moquim wants the central leadership to do something about this situation.
He also said that the party needs to be more open, give important jobs to good people, and make the young people feel important.
He wants Priyanka Gandhi to have a bigger role in the party.
Senior Congress leader Mohammed Moquim questioned the leadership of OPCC President Bhakta Charan Das in a letter to Sonia Gandhi.
Moquim cited six consecutive electoral losses in Odisha and three major defeats at the national level as reasons for his concerns.
He alleged that party workers are demoralized and directionless due to repeated defeats and poor leadership choices.
Moquim criticized Das's past electoral performance and ideological differences with the Congress party.
He highlighted Das's dismal performance in the Nuapada by-election, where Congress lost by nearly 83,000 votes.
- Who
- Mohammed Moquim, a senior Congress leader and former MLA, and Bhakta Charan Das, the current OPCC President.
- What
- Moquim has questioned the leadership of Das and the central leadership's choices, citing repeated electoral defeats and demoralization among party workers.
- When
- The letter was written on December 8, and the issues have been ongoing for some time.
- Where
- The infighting is taking place within the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC).
- Why
- Moquim believes that the party's leadership has made wrong decisions, leading to repeated defeats and a loss of morale among workers.
- Leader Raising Concerns
- Mohammed Moquim
- Current OPCC President
- Bhakta Charan Das
- Previous OPCC President
- Sarat Pattanaik
- Congress Vote Share in 2024
- 13%
- Nuapada By-Election Loss Margin
- 83,000 votes
- Letter Date
- December 8
