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Sibal, who is part of the G23, a ginger group of senior leaders who have called for organisational reforms, also wondered who in the party was taking decisions in the absence of a full-time president.
“In our party at the moment there is no president. So we don’t know who is taking these decisions. We know and yet we don’t know,” Sibal said, taking a dig at the Gandhis without mentioning them by name.
The reference was to the fact that Sonia Gandhi was made ‘interim president’ after Rahul Gandhi’s resignation, with the leadership stonewalling calls for internal elections.
He said the G-23 leaders would continue to raise their demands for structural reforms, adding: “We are the G-23, not the Jee Huzoor 23. It is very clear. We will keep talking.”
Sibal expressed anguish over the developments in the party in Punjab and the recent exodus of party leaders, saying all such issues need to be discussed at a party platform.
“I believe one of my senior colleagues( Ghulam Nabi Azad) has written to the Congress president to immediately convene a CWC. So that at least some things that we can’t speak publicly, we can have a dialogue in the CWC as to why we are in this state,” he said.
For the party to remain united there should be an “an elected president, an elected CWC, an elected Central Election Committee.”
The former minister pointed out that it was the leaders of the G-23 leaders who were still left standing while those favoured by the party leadership were moving out
“It is ironic. Those who were close to them (party leadership) have left and those whom they don’t consider to be close to them are still standing with them,” he said.
He called out to all those who left the party in the past to return. “Those who have left us should come back, because Congress is the only ideology which can sustain,” Sibal said.
Hours after he raised these questions, Congress workers in Delhi protested outside his house carrying placards that said: “Get Well Soon”.
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