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According to the party sources, Gandhi is likely to meet some more leaders of the G-23 in the coming days. (File) Days after meeting Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday met some more leaders of the G-23 group including Anand Sharma and Manish Tewari at her residence and held discussions on resolving internal party issues.
According to the party sources quoted by news agency PTI, the leaders suggested ways to strengthen the party and revive it to help take on the BJP in future elections.
While Anand Sharma is the Deputy Leader of the party in the Rajya Sabha, Tewari is the Lok Sabha MP from Anandpur Sahib in Punjab.
Sonia Gandhi is likely to meet a few more leaders of the G-23 grouping in the coming days.
Tuesday’s interaction comes in the wake of a series of meetings that the Congress top leadership is having with some of the leaders who have raised critical organisational issues and suggested measures to revamp the party.
In a bid to defuse the crisis, Gandhi had met Ghulam Nabi Azad last Friday, two days after the G-23 dissident group in the Congress openly asked the party to adopt a model of “collective and inclusive leadership and decision-making at all levels” and projected it as the “only way forward”. During the hour-long meeting, Azad is learnt to have put forward a set of proposals calling for elections to the Congress Working Committee, making the Central Election Committee an elected body and reviving the defunct Parliamentary Board to ensure that decision-making is collective.
It is being speculated that some of the G-23 leaders may be accommodated in the Congress Working Committee or a new body, which will be responsible for all policy decisions including finalising chief ministerial candidates and tie-ups with other parties in states.
G-23 is a group of dissenting Congress leaders who have been demanding an organisational overhaul and have been critical of the party leadership.
Another Congress Rajya Sabha MP and a leader of the G-23, Vivek Tankha, was also present during the meeting.
It is learnt that the Congress leadership is open to suggestions from the G-23 and has reached out to them in a bid to resolve the differences within and work out a resolution to strengthen the party, PTI reported.
Last week, senior leader Rahul Gandhi had met former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
With PTI inputs
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