Ghulam Nabi Azad likely to meet Sonia Gandhi tomorrow over G-23 proposals; Rahul-Priyanka to sit in

The leaders of the Congress’s “Group of 23” on Wednesday stated the one means ahead for the grand outdated occasion is to undertake a mannequin of collective and inclusive management and determination making in any respect ranges. In a press release, in addition they urged the Congress management to provoke talks with like-minded forces to create a means for a reputable different within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The G-23 leaders met on the residence of former Chief of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad over dinner on Wednesday to work out the grouping’s future technique and talk about the Congress’s debacle within the just-concluded Meeting polls in 5 states. Sources stated the grouping had earlier deliberate a dinner at Kapil Sibal’s residence, nevertheless it was modified on the final minute.

Following the ballot debacle of Congress in 5 states and a row and accountability over management, senior Congress chief and member of the dissident “G-23” group of leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, is more likely to meet occasion chief Sonia Gandhi at 10 Janpath on Thursday.

Among the many leaders who attended at the moment’s assembly had been Sibal, Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Prithviraj Chavan, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor, Vivek Tankha, Raj Babbar, Akhilesh Prasad Singh 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, former Rajya Sabha deputy chairman PJ Kurian and former Haryana speaker Kuldeep Sharma joined the dinner assembly.

The grouping had given an open invite to different Congressmen to hitch them on the dinner assembly. The sources stated the assembly was convened to apprise all of the G-23 members of the selections taken on the essential Congress Working Committee (CWC) meet on Sunday.

Two outstanding G-23 members — Azad and Sharma — had been to apprise the opposite members of the developments on the CWC assembly and what they stated on strengthening the occasion within the wake of its drubbing within the Meeting polls, they stated. The efficiency of the Congress in these states was poor because it didn’t win any of the 4 BJP-ruled states — Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur — whereas it misplaced Punjab to the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP).

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The G-23 grouping has been crucial of the Congress management. It has been demanding an organisational overhaul, after they wrote a joint letter to occasion president Sonia Gandhi in 2020. The sources stated invites had been additionally prolonged to the Congressmen who don’t represent the bloc however really feel that adjustments are required, together with on the management degree, to revive the occasion’s electoral fortunes.

The choice to convene a gathering of the G-23 got here a day after Gandhi sought the resignation of the Congress presidents of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa. Sibal, in his newest salvo concentrating on the management had stated the Gandhis ought to step apart and provides another chief an opportunity to helm the occasion, frightening a backlash from the Gandhi household loyalists, who accused him of talking the language of the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The G-23 has, nevertheless, acquired 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 occasions.

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