G-23 not 'Ji Huzoor-23': Sibal raises questions
September 29, 2021  17:04
image
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal followed in his colleague Manish Tewari's footsteps raising questions on the Punjab debacle. 

Sibal criticised the functioning of the Congress leadership but stopped short of naming the Gandhis. 

"In Congress, there is no elected president now. We don't know who is taking decisions," he said. "We know and yet we don't know," he added cryptcally.

Speaking to the media in Delhi, he said the presser was on behalf of those Congressmen who wrote a letter in August last year and are waiting for the actions to be taken by the leadership in respect of the election of the office of the president, to CWC and central election committee..

Sibal said, "We (leaders of G-23) are not the ones who will leave the party and go anywhere else. It is ironic. Those who were close to them (party leadership) have left and those whom they don't consider to be close to them are still standing with them.

"We are not "Jee Huzoor 23'. It is very clear. We will keep talking. We will continue to reiterate our demands."

Sibal, one of the 23 party leaders who wrote a letter to Congress president last year, demanding a slew of organizational reforms.

He said the problems in Punjab, a border state, will be an advantage to ISI and Pakistan. "We know the history of Punjab and the rise of extremism there... Congress should ensure that they remain united. I believe that one of my senior colleagues has perhaps written or is about to write to Congress president to immediately convene a CWC so that a dialogue can take place as to why we are in this state."
« Back to LIVE

TOP STORIES