New Delhi: Several senior leaders of the party wrote a letter to the interim president of the Congress, Sonia Gandhi, before the party’s highest policy-making unit Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Monday amid the ongoing discussion on the leadership issue in Congress Is demanded. It is being told that this issue will be discussed in the party meeting, which is to be held on Monday through video conference.
The CWC meeting is being held when Sonia Gandhi as interim president has completed a period of one year. According to the party’s organization general secretary KC Venugopal, the CWC meeting will begin at 11 am on Monday.
The letter calls for an urgent need for “full time and effective leadership”, which is both “visible’’ and “active’’ and an “urgent establishment of an institutional leadership mechanism” to “collectively guide the party’s revival’’.
It also asked for decentralisation of power, elections in the party at all levels and empowerment of its state units.
The letter is reportedly signed by many senior leaders of the party including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Kapil Sibal, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Prithviraj Chavan, P J Kurian, Renuka Chaudhary, and Milind Deora.
Earlier, on August 17, sacked Congress leader Sanjay Jha had said that around 100 Congress leaders, including Member of Parliament, had written to Sonia Gandhi regarding the change in the party leadership and transparent elections in the party, but the party denied his Twitter revelation.
Taking it to Twitter, Jha had said, “It is estimated that around 100 Congress leaders (including MP’s), distressed at the state of affairs within the party, have written a letter to Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Congress President, asking for change in political leadership and transparent elections in CWC.”
Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala had reacted on the allegation and linked it to the Facebook row by saying, “Special Misinformation Group on Media-TV Debate Guidance” in its what’sapp of today directed to run the story of a non existant letter of Congress leaders to divert attention from Facebook-BJP links. Of course, BJP stooges have started acting upon it.”
