Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal , who is one of the 23 signatories of a letter calling for a overhaul in the leadership of the party, o...
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal, who is one of the 23 signatories of a letter calling for a overhaul in the leadership of the party, on Saturday said that none of the concerns they had shared have been addressed so far. In an interview with The Indian Express, Sibal claimed the party did not take up the matter at the Congress Working Committee meeting held on Monday, and that no leader “stepped in when those who wrote the letter were attacked”.
The Congress is in the middle of an internal crisis, which was triggered after 23 party leaders wrote to Sonia Gandhi on August 15, urging her to address the leadership question in the party. The leaders claimed the uncertainty around it “has demoralised party workers and weakened the institution”. A controversy erupted over it, after several Congress chief ministers and state units responded by pledging their allegiance to the Gandhis and questioned the loyalty of the signatories.
Sibal said taking up the contents of the letter by the CWC, was a “fundamental thing” that should have happened. “This is what these 23 people have written,” he added. “If you find fault with any of what we have written, then, surely, we can be questioned and we should be...
