New Delhi: An agreement is being reached between the G-23 members and the Grand Old Party leadership ahead of the crucial high-level meeting, with the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting to be held on 16 October.
In the CWC meeting, the leaders are likely to discuss the current political situation and the upcoming assembly polls besides other issues.
The party’s highest decision-making body, the CWC, may approve organizational elections, a key demand of the dissident group.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is reaching the other camp through emissaries.
She is trying to reach G-23 by involving senior Congress leader and former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s son Deepender Hooda in protest against Lakhimpur Kheri violence. She has also taken Junior Hooda to Varanasi for her rally.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath is talking to the dissident group.
The signs of melting stem from the Congress letter, written by party general secretary KC Venugopal, seeking an appointment with President Ram Nath Kovind to submit a memorandum on the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.
The signatories of the letter include Ghulam Nabi Azad, second only to the G-23 leaders after Rahul Gandhi.
The internal rift in the Congress has continued since August last year, when a letter was written to Sonia Gandhi for visible and effective leadership.
Senior Congress leaders and G-23 members Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal had earlier expressed concern over the “continuous drift in the party” amid defection from the party and turmoil in several state units, including Punjab.
He had also demanded that an immediate meeting of the CWC be called to discuss the internal crisis.
Sibal had recently said, “There is no president in our party, so we don’t know who is taking all the decisions.”
“We know it, yet we don’t know, maybe a senior colleague of mine has written or is about to write to the interim president to call a meeting of the CWC so that talks can be started,” he said.
The G-23 members, however, have been soft on their statements after the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.
Senior Congress leader and G-23 member Anand Sharma earlier this week lauded Priyanka and Rahul for their “courageous act of compassion and solidarity with the farmers whose sons were killed”.
“Appreciate RahulGandhi and @PriyankaGandhi’s courageous act of compassion and solidarity with the farmers whose sons were killed. An honest and expressed commitment to fight for justice for the bereaved farmers, which must be supported by all who respect the rule of law,” he tweeted.
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