Sonia Gandhi’s transfer is a follow-up to the Congress management assembly on Sunday
New Delhi:
Congress president Sonia Gandhi right now sacked the celebration’s chiefs within the 5 states the place it suffered huge defeats final week, taking what it referred to as step one in the direction of “reorganisation”. Navjot Singh Sidhu, who took over as Punjab Congress chief eight months in the past, is among the many leaders requested to resign.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala tweeted that the resignations have been sought to “facilitate the reorganisation” of the state Congress models.
Congress President, Smt. Sonia Gandhi has requested the PCC Presidents of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa & Manipur to place of their resignations to be able to facilitate reorganisation of PCC’s.
— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) March 15, 2022
The Congress misplaced Punjab to Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) and did not put up a reputable battle within the 4 states the place it had hoped for a comeback – and even handle a detailed contest with the BJP.
The Punjab loss was the worst; the Congress collapsed after months of infighting as Mr Sidhu clashed with veteran Amarinder Singh in addition to his eleventh-hour alternative Charanjit Singh Channi.
Sonia Gandhi’s transfer is a follow-up to the Congress management assembly on Sunday to debate the newest ballot drubbings.
In her speech to senior leaders on the Congress Working Committee (CWC)’s ballot autopsy, Sonia Gandhi supplied to resign alongside together with her kids Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Mrs Gandhi introduced the resignation supply because the “ultimate sacrifice in the interest of the party“, in accordance with celebration leaders. Nevertheless it was “unanimously rejected”, the leaders mentioned.
“Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi mentioned that she alongside together with her relations Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are able to sacrifice their posts for the celebration, however all of us rejected this,” senior chief Adhir Ranjan Choudhary informed information company ANI.
Rahul Gandhi, nevertheless, doesn’t maintain any publish within the celebration after he stop as Congress president proudly owning accountability for the Congress’s 2019 nationwide election drubbing.
After a four-and-a-half hour assembly, the CWC mentioned Sonia Gandhi would stay celebration president and authorised her to take “efficient and instant steps” to deal with organisational points.
The celebration even put out a video of all its former leaders, together with Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, on its Twitter deal with, signalling that the Gandhis would stay in cost.
The Congress “dissidents” or G-23 – the group of 23 leaders who wrote to Sonia Gandhi calling for sweeping organisational adjustments – have been vital of the Gandhis’ management and have overtly referred to as for an entire overhaul.
Former Union Minister Kapil Sibal, a really vocal member of the G-23, mentioned the Gandhis ought to step apart and provides another chief an opportunity to guide the celebration.
“Management is in cuckoo land… I need a ‘Sab ki Congress’. Some need a ‘Ghar ki Congress‘,” Mr Sibal informed the Indian Categorical in an interview.
These remarks have intensified the “Congress versus Congress” feud that has outlined the celebration because it misplaced energy in 2014 and confronted many extra election defeats.
