New Delhi: VeteranCongress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is part of G-23, reached 10, Janpath in New Delhi to meet party president Sonia Gandhi, a day after members of the dissenting group held a flurry of meetings over measures to revamp the party. After meeting with Sonia Gandhi, Azad told the reporters that Working Committee was asked for suggestions and reasons for defeat in 5 states.
"The discussion was held to fight unitedly in the forthcoming Assembly elections to defeat the opposition parties," the veteran leader added. Saying that the meeting went good, Azad said that all members of the Congress party decided unanimously that "she should continue as the president."
After the Group of 23 pitched for an "inclusive and collective leadership" in the Congress, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, one of its members, met Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and the two leaders were learnt to have discussed a revamp of the party organisation, a key demand of the dissenters. These meetings are being seen as an attempt by the Gandhi family to reach out to the G-23, which has shown signs of increasing aggression on the leadership issue after Congress' abject loss in the assembly elections in five states.
Earlier on Friday, Azad also met veteran Congress leader Karan Singh and said he came to greet Singh on Holi.
Sonia Gandhi had on Tuesday sought the resignations of state party chiefs of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur. The results of five assembly polls came as a shock to the Congress which was hoping to do well to revive its prospects for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and to fend off the emerging challenge from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Trinamool Congress to replace it as the fulcrum of anti-BJP politics in the country. The party is slated to elect a new party chief later this year at the culmination of organisational elections.
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