The group of 23 senior Congress functionaries, who wrote to Sonia Gandhi seeking organisational overhaul and “able and visible leadership”, has decided that policy statements focused on the Centre were required to send out a message to the party as well as to the political rival BJP. “There are important issues on which the party is silent,” said a member in the letter writers’ group. On Tuesday, there was a strong buzz about recrimination and clashes within the G-23 too.