Ghulam Nabi Azad writes to Sonia, demands CWC meeting and election of party president

Azad in his letter pointed out the need for a permanent president and to discuss party affairs in the present scenario and has reiterated his demand for organizational elections in the party. Besides that, group 23 of the congress has also again demanded elections to the post of the party president.

 

 

This comes just after, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal has launched a scathing attack on the Gandhi-Vadra-led party and wondered who in the party is taking decisions. He said that the party leaders' demand for organisational elections has not been met even a year after the letter was written by G-23.

Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Sibal said, "There is no president in our party, so we do not know who is taking all the decisions. We know it, yet we don't know, one of my senior colleagues perhaps has written or is about to write to the interim president to immediately convene a CWC meeting so that a dialogue can be initiated."

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He appealed to those leaders who quit Congress to come back to the fold and said, "it's ironic to say that we are going to leave the party. Those who were considered close to the top leadership have left the party and those who were not considered close are still standing with the party. We are G-23 and not Ji-huzoor 23."

Sibal said that he is speaking on behalf of those Congress members who wrote the letter in August 2020 and are waiting for the action to be taken by the leadership in respect of the election of the office of the president, to CWC and central election committee.

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