The Gandhi family that headed the Congress was criticized. (File)
New Delhi:
Congress’s top decision-making body, the Congressional Work Committee or CWC, will meet at 4 p.m. ET today, three days after a crushing defeat in state polls and the potential to move forward. Internal elections are scheduled for September amid fresh questions about its leadership, sources said on Saturday.
Congress face off erase state election results announced on Thursday the loss of Punjab, one of the last major states under its control, to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and failed to deliver a strong fight in the other three states, where it has hope to return – Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
In Uttar Pradesh, where the campaign was led by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, daughter of party chief Sonia Gandhi and sister of senior leader Rahul Gandhi, Congress won just two seats out of 403, five seats behind. final polls. The party received only 2.4% of the vote.
Fail to revive harsh criticism of Gandhi’s family and increasingly calls for a complete overhaul and leadership change of some party leaders – a demand so far limited to the “G-23” or group of 23 “dissidents”, who have wrote to Sonia Gandhi two years ago.
“There will be no adjustment,” said senior leaders of Congress, who are speaking out within the party against Gandhis leadership.
Congressional Leader Shashi Tharoor, a member of the G-23, on Thursday tweeted that the party couldn’t avoid change while his colleague Jaiveer Shergill called for reform and warned against corruption. this loss.
Some dissidents met at the house of veteran Ghulam leader Nabi Azad last night and reportedly discussed the way forward, expressing frustration at the congress leadership for not taking any corrective steps to reinvigorate the party.
They also expressed concern that the report of the commission set up to assess the damage following the failure of the last round of polls in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala and Puducherry was not even discussed. discussion at the party.
However, Gandhi family loyalists defended the leader. In an interview with NDTV, the party’s top troubleshooter DK Shivakumar on Friday said Parliament could not unite without its first family and it has “can’t” let it exist without them.
“Without the Gandhi family, the Congress party cannot unite. They are the key to the unification of the Congress party… The Congress cannot exist without the Gandhi family,” the petition’s leader said. said the party’s Karnataka.
