More than 50 leaders participated in the CWC meeting held in the evening.
New Delhi:
Sonia Gandhi will continue as Congress president, the party said today, after a four-and-a-half hour post-mortem post-mortem. The three Gandhi families reportedly offered to “sacrifice” their positions, but the party declined.
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NDTV had reported yesterday that the Gandhi family would offer to resign, which the party rejected. But today a senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury confirmed this to news agency ANI. “Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi said that she is ready to make sacrifices for the party along with her family members along with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, but we all rejected it,” he said.
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Congress said, “The CWC unanimously reaffirms its belief in the leadership of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and moves beyond the Congress President to lead, address organizational weaknesses, address urgent political challenges and effect broader organizational changes.” tries.” Request.” in testimony.
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The party also said that it would organize “chintan shivirs” (brainstorming sessions) after the budget session of Parliament to focus on organizational elections.
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More than 50 leaders attended the meeting – more than the combined number of Congress MLAs and MPs from the five states where elections were held – Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Punjab.
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The scale of the Congress’ defeat had given rise to new demands for sweeping organizational changes and an accountable leadership – first introduced two years ago when a group of 23 dissidents later called the G-23, an explosive to Sonia Gandhi Wrote a letter
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This time, sharp criticism from the top leadership came from other quarters as well, albeit off record. There has been criticism that Rahul Gandhi, who has no official position after stepping down as Congress president following the party’s second consecutive national election defeat in 2019, continues to call the shots.
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The decisions of him and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have been blamed for the party’s crushing defeat in Punjab, the state it ruled, and in Uttar Pradesh.
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The CWC has only three members from “G-23”, Anand Sharma, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mukul Wasnik. Sources said that Mr. Sharma and Ghulam Nabi Azad spoke openly in the meeting.
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said that Rahul Gandhi should be the Congress President. “For the last three decades, no one from the Gandhi family became a PM or a minister. It is important to understand that the Gandhi family is important for the unity of the Congress,” he told news agency ANI.
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This time, the Congress not only lost power in Punjab, one of the three states it ruled, but also in Goa and Manipur. In Uttar Pradesh, it won only two seats and its vote share came down to just 2.4 per cent.