Sonia Gandhi has already included her loyalists in the parliamentary party.
New Delhi:
Congress President Sonia Gandhi will chair a virtual meeting of the parliamentary strategy group tomorrow, the first since the Working Committee meeting on August 24, where she will interact with the key writers of the explosive letter that last shook the party. time. month.
Congressional top leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma, who are part of the strategy group, were among the 23 leaders who signed the letter calling for major changes in leadership, party organization and internal elections.
Sonia Gandhi has already included her loyalists in the parliamentary party to effectively neutralize dissidents.
For the parliament session that begins on September 14, Congress is expected to confirm its opinion on a series of ordinances issued after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the world’s biggest blockade in March.
Ordinances Congress will oppose include the PM Cares fund, but the party will support the attorney general ordinance, the sources said. He will support salary cuts for deputies, but he will oppose the executive decision to suspend MPLAD funds for two years, as it paralyzes ongoing works.
Sources said the party will also oppose “one nation’s market, one for farmers,” as it feels that farmers will be disappointed when they sell their products. The closure of mandis will put many out of work, especially the poor who work as porters, weigh men and others. Such a law will also violate the rights of states, the party maintains.
Despite her magnanimous comment at the Working Committee meeting that she “has no ill will” towards dissidents, Sonia Gandhi has kept them at arm’s length. All of them have been left out of the key promotions in the parliamentary party and even in the task force for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections scheduled for 2022.
So far, Ms Gandhi has not made any changes to the All India Congressional Committee or set the stage for an AICC session, which was promised to dissidents at the Working Committee meeting held last month.
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