Congress reach-out to G-23: Sonia Gandhi meets Ghulam Nabi Azad at 10, Janpath

Senior Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad arrived at 10, Janpath on Friday to satisfy celebration president Sonia Gandhi amid talks of rapprochement between the dissenting Group of 23 (G-23) faction and celebration excessive command.

Earlier this week, Sonia Gandhi reportedly spoke twice on the telephone to Ghulam Nabi Azad, even because the G-23 held back-to-back conferences to debate an overhaul of the celebration organisation after the latest ballot debacle in 5 states.

The assembly is being seen as an try by the Gandhi household to achieve out to the G-23 leaders like Azad, who’ve been more and more outspoken on the management concern within the Congress.

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Following a sequence of conferences this week, Azad and veteran Congress chief Bhupinder Singh Hooda (one other member of the G-23), to have mentioned “concrete proposals” for “collective management” to strengthen the celebration.

These proposals could also be thought-about when Azad, as soon as a Gandhi household loyalist, holds talks with Sonia Gandhi right this moment.

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What are the calls for of G-23 leaders?

In a latest assertion, the G-23 faction urged the Congress excessive command to “undertake the mannequin of collective and inclusive management and choice making in any respect ranges”.

“In an effort to oppose the BJP it’s essential to strengthen the Congress celebration. We demand the Congress celebration to provoke dialogue with different like-minded forces to create a platform to pave the best way for a reputable different for 2024. The subsequent steps might be introduced quickly,” the assertion learn.

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The G-23 has been persistently searching for a restructuring of the organisation because it first wrote to Sonia Gandhi in 2020 about it after of a string of electoral losses and the celebration’s diminishing clout.

They insisted they wish to strengthen the Congress and “not undermine it in any means.”