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Salman Khurshid: If there was no democracy in Congress, I would not have been in the party

With the Congress receiving yet another electoral drubbing, voices of dissent have once again started getting louder. While demanding accountability, senior Congress leaders are questioning the manner in which the party is being run at the moment. Countering one such charge by senior leader Kapil Sibal, party colleague Salman Khurshid had in a Facebook post asserted that the favourite panacea of "doubting Thomases" -- introspection and collective leadership -- might do no collateral damage but is a bit overestimated.

Hours later, Asianet Newsable's Mohammad Yacoob spoke to Salman Khurshid. Here are excerpts:

With the Congress receiving yet another electoral drubbing, voices of dissent have once again started getting louder. While demanding accountability, senior Congress leaders are questioning the manner in which the party is being run at the moment. Countering one such charge by senior leader Kapil Sibal, party colleague Salman Khurshid had in a Facebook post asserted that the favourite panacea of "doubting Thomases" -- introspection and collective leadership -- might do no collateral damage but is a bit overestimated.

Hours later, Asianet Newsable's Mohammad Yacoob spoke to Salman Khurshid. Here are excerpts: