Accept poll verdict, insists Sonia

Saying that the National Advisory Council would provide feedback on CMP implementation, she stressed that she would ‘‘devote time to it’’. She also said that she would spend time on strengthening the party, which substantiated the perception that the party would revamp the AICC on the basis of the performance across the country in the Lok Sabha polls.

She criticised the ‘‘irresponsible behaviour’’ of BJP/NDA saying, ‘‘The desperation of our opponents is not surprising, their frustration not unexpected.’’ ‘‘Blinded by arrogance of power, isolated from the people, they did not expect to lose. They lost. More than that, they lost decisively,’’ she added. On the UPA government’s performance in the last 40 days, she said the PM’s plea to ‘‘make the government a more effective instrument of economic change and social transformation has been well received.’’