With the dissident G-23 group of Congress leaders calling for “collective and inclusive management and choice making” at their assembly on Wednesday, the makes an attempt of the Congress excessive command and Gandhi household loyalists to defend the household from accountability for ballot debacles is dealing with a decided pushback. Although Sonia Gandhi has reportedly reached out to Ghulam Nabi Azad, a detente had appeared unlikely after Kapil Sibal’s remarks suggesting that the household step apart. However by calling for collective management the dissidents seem like frightened {that a} maximalist place may find yourself isolating them.
Apparently, the G-23 assembly noticed some new faces like Shashi Tharoor, Mani Shankar Iyer, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Shankarsinh Vaghela and Preneet Kaur in attendance. The presence of the high-profile Tharoor who has an viewers amongst middle-class Congress supporters and Iyer, who has been near the household for many years, might be a sign that the G-23’s views are getting extra traction. That there have been 5 former chief ministers on the assembly was additionally not misplaced on political watchers.
Sonia’s strikes like demanding the resignation of the PCC presidents who helmed the get together within the 5 states has additionally triggered questions of why the accountability doesn’t stretch to Rahul or Priyanka Gandhi who had been liable for numerous controversial selections that ended up hurting the get together. Going by Congress’s historical past until the Nineties resulting in Sonia Gandhi’s takeover of the get together, dissidence concentrating on the central management has culminated in acrimonious splits or ousting of incumbent presidents. The subsequent strikes of the Congress management and the G-23 will reveal how this new chapter in Congress’s inside intrigues finish.
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