G-23 leaders’ ‘show of strength’ in Jammu today

Barely two months after Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s reachout to the group of dissenters (G-23), they’ll have a present of energy in Jammu over the weekend.

Sources confirmed to The Puucho that senior leaders, together with Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal and Anand Sharma, have reached Jammu for a public programme on Saturday.

Other leaders resembling Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Manish Tewari, Vivek Tankha and Raj Babbar are anticipated to hitch it.

Officially, they’ll participate in a public programme organised by the Gandhi Global Family basis, a non-government organisation that has Mr. Azad because the president.

But the optics of the important thing members of G-23 gathered in one place is supposed to convey a not-so-subtle message that the social gathering’s inside issues are removed from over.

On February 14, The Puucho reported that there was a rising sense of unease amongst G-23 over the latest selections, together with not providing a contemporary Rajya Sabha time period for Mr. Azad in addition to bypassing Mr. Sharma, presently the Deputy Leader in the Upper House, for the put up because the Leader of the Opposition (LoP).

A member of G-23 mentioned they wished to convey “a sense of solidarity” when the individuals of Jammu welcomed Mr. Azad after his retirement from the Upper House.

The improvement additionally comes simply days after former social gathering chief Rahul Gandhi’s latest feedback in Kerala that whereas individuals in North India did politics over superficial issues, politics in South India was over “issues”. Soon after the remark, Mr. Sharma and Mr. Azad are learnt to have met focus on the “fallout” of the remark.

Revamp demand

Speaking on the situation of anonymity, a senior member of G-23 mentioned they stood agency on their demand of revamping the social gathering and make it a extra consultant in any respect ranges: from the block and district stage to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the best decision-making physique, and the Central Election Committee, the panel that chooses social gathering candidates for Assembly and Lok Sabha polls.

In August final, the 23 leaders had written about revamping the social gathering and pointed to the “sense of drift” in the social gathering put up the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

“We are committed to the Congress ideology and we have spent most parts of our lives in the party. But we are equally committed to the issues we raised in the letter,” a key member of G-23 mentioned.

These leaders didn’t blame Mr. Gandhi in the letter for the state of the affairs in the social gathering however many privately argued that both he ought to make approach for a non-Gandhi member of the family to take over as social gathering chief or take cost once more.