Congress Leadership Working Out Truce With G-23 Members Ahead Of Major CWC Meet: Report
The CWC, the party’s highest decision making body, is likely to give a nod to the organisational polls, which is the key demand of the dissenting group.
New Delhi: With the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meet all set to take place on October 16, a truce is being worked out between the G-23 members and the grand old party’s leadership ahead of the crucial high-level meeting.
The leaders are likely to discuss the current political situation and forthcoming assembly polls besides other issues in the CWC meet.
The CWC, the party’s highest decision making body, is likely to give a nod to the organisational polls, which is the key demand of the dissenting group.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is reaching out to the other camp through emissaries.
She has also been trying to reach out to the G-23 by involving Deepender Hooda, the son of senior Congress leader and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, with her protest on the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. She has also taken the junior Hooda to Varanasi for her rally, IANS reported.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath has been talking to the dissenting group.
The sign of thaw emerges from the Congress letter, which has been written by party general secretary K.C. Venugopal seeking an appointment with President Ram Nath Kovind to submit a memorandum on the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, IANS reported.
The signatories of the letter include Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is one among the G-23 leaders, on the second number after Rahul Gandhi.
An internal rift is on in the Congress since August last year when a letter was written to Sonia Gandhi for visible and effective leadership.
Senior Congress leaders and G-23 members Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal had earlier expressed concerns over what they called “the continuing drift in the party” amid a spate of defections from the party and turmoil in many state units, including Punjab.
They had also demanded that a meeting of the CWC be convened immediately to discuss the internal crisis.
“There is no president in our party, so we do not know who is taking all the decisions,” Sibal had recently said.
“We know it, yet we don't know, one of my senior colleagues perhaps has written or is about to write to the interim president to immediately convene a CWC meeting so that a dialogue can be initiated,” he added.
The G-23 members have, however, toned down their statements after the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.
Senior Congress leader and G-23 member Anand Sharma had earlier this week lauded Priyanka and Rahul for their “courageous act of compassion and solidarity with farmers whose sons were killed”.
“Commending @RahulGandhi and @PriyankaGandhi's courageous act of compassion and solidarity with farmers whose sons were killed. A sincere and expressed commitment to fight for justice for the bereaved farmers which must be supported by all who respect the rule of law,” he tweeted.
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