Senior Congress leader and 23 block group Ghulam Nabi Azad has told News18 that party president Sonia Gandhi has been receptive to suggestions made by the disgruntled lobby after she lost the assembly elections in 2022, in which the Congress lost power in Punjab. .
Azad had met the interim Congress president on Friday at his 10 Janpath residence in the national capital. Talking to News18, he said that there is no controversy over Sonia Gandhi’s leadership. “Sonia Gandhi is receptive to our suggestions regarding change and strength in the organization and she also wants the organization to be strong,” he said.
After meeting Sonia, Azad told reporters that he gave her suggestions to strengthen the party and discussed fighting the rivals unitedly in the next phase of assembly elections.
The Group of 23 advocates for “inclusive and collective leadership” in Congress. Another G-23 leader Kapil Sibal had recently said that the Gandhi family should step aside and pave the way for someone else to take over the reins of the Congress. Team.
Asked about Sibal’s call for change of leadership, Azad said, “There is no question of leadership (change). When Mrs Gandhi offered (to leave) the CWC, we all asked her to continue. It will be discussed once the elections are held in the party.”
Party workers will decide at that time who will be the president, Azad said. “The post of party president is not vacant today. At the Working Committee, when she offered to leave, all of us, regardless of group or thought, Mrs. Gandhi said you continue, we have no problem, but there are some suggestions that we have made to strengthen the organisation. were given for added.
He said, “No one said that Mrs. Gandhi should step down now, let me tell you very clearly that we took the decision in the working committee.”
Members of the G-23 have organized a flurry of meetings about measures to reform the party. After the group stood for “inclusive and collective leadership” in the Congress, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, one of its members, met with Rahul Gandhi and the two leaders discussed reform of the party organisation, a key demand. Was. opposers
Sonia’s meetings with Hooda and Rahul with Azad are seen as an attempt by the Gandhi family to reach the G-23, which indicated increasing aggression on the leadership issue after the Congress’s defeat in the assembly elections. five states.
The G-23 has been consistently demanding a reorganization of the organization since it first wrote about it in 2020 after its electoral defeat to Sonia Gandhi.
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