Congress leader Salman Khurshid said on Sunday that there was no urgency to have an elected party president, PTI reported. Khurshid said he...
Congress leader Salman Khurshid said on Sunday that there was no urgency to have an elected party president, PTI reported. Khurshid said he cannot “see the heavens falling” as Sonia Gandhi was still in charge and should be the one to decide the future leader.
“For people like me, we already have leaders, we have a leader in Mrs Sonia Gandhi, we have a leader in Rahul Gandhi,” Khurshid said. “So for me there is no sense of urgency about electing leaders. Electing a president, yes that will happen when it happens, I can’t see the heavens falling down. What is the sense of urgency that is being expressed, is not clear to me.”
Khurshid, among the leaders close to the Gandhi family, told PTI in an interview that he would not have signed the letter sent by 23 senior party leaders to Sonia Gandhi, even if he had been approached to do so. The letter had sought free elections and a full-time, operational leadership for the party, among other things.
“It is very clear that the important persons in this letter do belong to the top echelons of our party and therefore Mrs Gandhi has indicated that it was best that they could have...
