Ahead of a crucial meeting between Sonia Gandhi and a section of senior leaders who had written to her in August demanding a review of the organization, Congress on Friday downplayed internal dissension and said that Rahul Gandhi was the “right person” to lead the organization. match. . The spokesman for the president of Congress, Randeep Surjewala, said that the party remained united and united as a family and that there are no pending dissensions after the announcement of the elections for the position of head of the party.
The claim comes ahead of Saturday’s meeting between Sonia Gandhi and many of the 23 leaders who wrote to her in August. They had also demanded active and sustained leadership that Gandhis will always be a “guiding force”. The sources said that among those scheduled to meet with Gandhi were the opposition leader in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, the party’s deputy leader in the upper house Anand Sharma, former chief ministers Bhupinder Hooda and Prithviraj Chavan, Manish Tewari, Vivek Tankha and Shashi Tharoor.
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath and Senior Leader P Chidambaram will also be part of the meeting, the sources added. Rahul Gandhi will also attend the meeting.
Even when the party played down internal friction, the so-called Group of 23 that wrote the letter maintains that the issues they raised are still relevant and “far from over.” Azad had recently criticized the “five-star culture” in the party and said elections must be held at all organizational levels starting from the bloc. Surjewala, however, said that all the issues raised by the “letter writers” were resolved after Sonia Gandhi announced elections for president of Congress.
“This is not a meeting of any special group of leaders. It is not a meeting of dissidents or rebels. Because we consider each leader and each worker as part of the family,” he said while trying to downplay the meeting. “Workers in Congress and the Electoral College, including the party’s AICC members, will choose the person who best fits the position. I believe and the overwhelming majority of 99.9 percent of leaders and workers that Rahul Gandhi is the right person to lead the party and take on the Modi government, “said Surjewala.
He said that Rahul Gandhi is perhaps that “rare breed” of leaders who has fearlessly questioned the anti-popular policies of the Modi government and has won the affection not only of congressional workers but also of ordinary Indians.
“We believe that Rahul Gandhi should lead the party from the front,” he said. When asked about Saturday’s meeting, he said that the president of Congress was unable to meet with people on many issues for a considerable period of time due to the COVID protocol. Starting on Saturday and for a period of the next fortnight, Sonia Gandhi will meet and decide on various organizational issues in addition to those such as the unsuccessful winter session of Parliament, the agitation of farmers and the ending of alliances in key states, said.
Surjewala said that in addressing the issues raised by some of the top leaders, Sonia Gandhi has already decided to hold elections for the post of president of Congress and that the process is currently underway. “All issues are resolved with the announcement of the election of the next president of Congress, so there are no internal issues of dissent of any nature that are pending in the party.” The BJP continues to spread insinuations of this type that our leaders do not believe, including those that it had written letters. We are a family. We will stick together and work together, “he said. The president of Congress will be elected by the party’s electoral college, he said.
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