"They (YSR Congress) carried out a disinformation campaign that welfare schemes (launched when Y S Rajasekhara Reddy was Chief Minister) would be removed. We could not convey the truth properly to the people," state minister P Balaraju told reporters here.
Senior Congress Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao said party workers need not be demoralised over the poor results.
He suggested that a strategy meeting should be held to analyse party's performance and plan for the future.
The party needs to ponder over those who did not help the party's cause, even though they continued to be party leaders, state Primary Education Minister S Sailajanath said.
State Congress president Botsa Satyanarayana and other leaders met Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today.
Meanwhile, Congress leaders from Telangana region are likely to go to Delhi this month-end to resume their demand over separate state.
In Mahabubnagar district, unsavoury incidents were witnessed at a meeting of Congress workers and leaders today. A war of words broke out between activists loyal to Lok Sabha member Manda Jagannatham and state Information Minister D K Aruna.
The YSR Congress decimated ruling Congress bagging 15 of the 18 assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat in bye-elections in Andhra Pradesh in a showing that could be a political game-changer in the state.
