Some leaders of the Congress’s ‘Group of 23’ met on the residence of former Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad over dinner on Wednesday to work out the grouping’s future technique and focus on the get together’s ballot debacle within the just-concluded meeting polls.
Sources mentioned the grouping had earlier deliberate a dinner at Kapil Sibal’s residence, but it surely was modified on the final minute.
Among the leaders who attended the assembly included Anand Sharma, Kapil Sibal, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor and Sandeep Dikshit.
The ambit of the G-23 grouping elevated this time as some extra leaders – Patiala MP Preneet Kaur, former Gujarat chief minister Shankar Singh Vaghela, former union minister Mani Shankar Aiyar and former Haryana speaker Kuldeep Sharma joined them.
The grouping had given an open invite to different Congressmen to affix them on the dinner assembly.
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The sources mentioned the assembly was convened to apprise all of the members of the G-23 in regards to the choices taken on the essential Congress Working Committee assembly on Sunday.
Two distinguished G-23 members Azad and Sharma would additionally apprise the opposite members of the developments on the CWC and what they spoke on strengthening the get together within the wake of the get together’s drubbing within the meeting polls in 5 states, they mentioned.
The Congress efficiency in these states was poor because it didn’t win again any of the 4 BJP-ruled states together with Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur, whereas it misplaced Punjab to the AAP.
The G-23 grouping has been vital of the get together management and has been demanding organizational overhaul, after they wrote a joint letter to Sonia Gandhi in 2020.
The sources mentioned invites have been additionally prolonged to the Congressmen who do not represent the bloc however really feel modifications are required, together with on the management degree, to revive its electoral fortunes.
The choice to convene a gathering of the G-23 got here a day after Sonia Gandhi sought the resignation of Congress presidents of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa following the get together’s dismal efficiency there.
Sibal, in his newest salvo focusing on the management had mentioned the Gandhis ought to step apart and provides another chief an opportunity to helm the get together, scary a backlash from Gandhi household loyalists who accused him of talking the language of the BJP and the RSS.
The G-23 has, nonetheless, bought weakened over time with senior chief M Veerappa Moily distancing himself from the group, Jitin Prasada becoming a member of the BJP, and Mukul Wasnik not attending its conferences in current instances.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
