G-23 to meet in 48 hours over Cong poll debacle
March 10, 2022 17:56
Kapil Sibal is one of the dissenting Congress leaders
Upset with results and rapid decline of Congress in the recent Assembly Elections, G-23 leaders will meet in the next 48 hours, a senior leader tells ANI.
The Congress has lost in all five states - Manipur, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Goa and Punjab .
The party has decided to convene a Congress Working Committee meeting soon to introspect the results, Congress General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala said today while conceding defeat.
After the loss of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, several Congress leaders believed that party-level reforms were need of the hour. Amid the thinning base of the grand-old party, leaders demanded a democratic set up within the national party as it struggled to have a leader, post-Sonia Gandhis resignation.
In August 2020, 23 senior Congress leaders wrote a letter to interim party chief Sonia Gandhi requesting immediate and active leadership, organisational rejig. In the letter, they sought an overhaul within the party in view of frequent failures at Lok Sabha and state elections.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal, Manish Tewari, Anand Sharma are among the group of 23.
Sibal had said at a press conference that the G-23 grouping is "not a Jee Huzur 23" and will continue to put forth the views and will continue to repeat the demands.
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