A meeting between Congress President Sonia Gandhi and other senior leaders, including some of the 23 “dissenters”, who had written to her ...
A meeting between Congress President Sonia Gandhi and other senior leaders, including some of the 23 “dissenters”, who had written to her in August seeking a revamp in the party, was underway on Saturday morning, reported the Hindustan Times. The meeting is billed to be a crucial one with matters like revival of the party, upcoming Assembly elections and the farmers’ protest, expected to come up for discussion.
A slew of meetings are to be held over the next 10 days, which can possibly also decide the next president of the party, NDTV reported. Former party chief Rahul Gandhi was also attending the meeting.
Among those who wrote the letter, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari and former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda reached Gandhi’s residence at Janpath Road in Delhi on Saturday morning, according to the Hindustan Times. Other senior leaders like Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and state Congress president Kamal Nath, Ambika Soni, AK Antony and P Chidambaram also attended.
On Friday, party spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala had said that the party would soon begin the process to elect a new president and claimed that 99.9% of the members wanted Rahul Gandhi to be chosen for the post. “We are one family and...
