The Congress had formed a committee under former Uttar Pradesh governor Motilal Vora in view of the coming Assembly elections and the poor performance of the Congress in the recently-held Parliamentary elections.

The committee blamed ``bitter bickering'' and infighting for the Congress's Delhi debacle, it is learnt.

``But even now if all the leaders unite and bring out the weaknesses and misrule of the Bharatiya Janata Party, they (the BJP) can be easily defeated in the coming Assembly elections,'' a senior party leader said yesterday.

DPCC president Prem Singh reportedly submitted a separate report to Vora, marking a copy to All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Oscar Fernandes on ``what ails the Congress party in Delhi''.

He also blamed infighting for the poor showing, at the same timeseeking solace in the fact that the DPCC had fared better than PCCs in several other states.

The DPCC chief submitted figures and the estimates of the percentage of voting and attacked his detractors saying the Congress fared very well in his Assembly constituency and lost because members were too busy fighting among themselves. Instead of strengthening the party, they were cutting away at the roots of the Congress, a Prem Singh supporter said.

The Vora committee after having sought the views of over 2,000 Congressmen concluded that the party needed to be strengthened at every level, especially at the grassroots. A major complaint has been that most party leaders have not been party workers at the block level -- where it is possible to exert a positive influence on voters.

Prem Singh on his part has submitted that he inherited the party in its present form with leaders already having been appointed before him. And that he had had to work with whatever was made available to him. The Vora Committee, it islearnt, has also commented on organisational elections and the circumstances under which the leaders were elected.

Leaders owing allegiance to certain people were in power, alienating everybody else, the report said, adding it was ``bad for intra-party democracy''.