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Congress versus the gandhis?

India’s goP faces big crisis after poll debacle

The G-23 group has been a critic of Congress leadership, demanding an organizational

overhaul after its members wrote a joint letter to Sonia Gandhi in 2020

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New Delhi/Lucknow
ollowing the Congress’s poor
performance in the Assembly
Felections in five states, Con-
gress interim president Sonia Gandhi
sought the resignations of state party
chiefs of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand,
Punjab, Goa and Manipur.

according to Congress gen-
eral secretary randeep singh

surjewala, the move has been
taken to facilitate the reorga-
nization of the party’s state
units. “Congress President so-

nia gandhi has asked the PCC
Presidents of uttar Pradesh,
uttarakhand, Punjab, goa and
manipur to put in their resig- Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi interacts with party leader Rahul Gandhi during the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, at
the Party Headquarters, in New Delhi (ANI)
nations to facilitate the reor-
ganization of PCCs,” tweeted could not be held responsible for the
surjewala. loss in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand,
Punjab, Manipur and Goa. Rajya
Sabha Leader of Opposition Kharge
Congress high command’s move
comes after Congress Working Com- said, “We all told Sonia Gandhi that
she alone is not responsible for the
mittee’s meeting on Sunday. The defeat in 5 states, every state leader
meeting was held after the party’s and MP is responsible, not Gandhi
crushing defeat in the recently con- family.”
cluded Assembly elections in five “We reposed our faith in her,
states. there’s no question of offering res-
The results of five assembly polls
came as a shock to the Congress ignation. We all are responsible for
defeat in these five states, not just
which was hoping to do well to revive Gandhi family or Sonia Gandhi,” he
its prospects for the 2024 Lok Sabha added.
polls and to fend off the emerging Stating that Congress is a pe-
challenge from the Aam Aadmi Par- rennial party and is deeply rooted
ty (AAP) and Trinamool Congress to in the minds of people, senior Con-
replace it as the fulcrum of anti-BJP gress leader M Veerappa Moily on
politics in the country. Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad speaks to the media after meeting party Interim President Friday said that that the Congress-
But senior Congress leader Mal- Sonia Gandhi, outside 10, Janpath, in New Delhi on Friday. (ANI)
likarjun Kharge on Monday said that men should change their attitude in
order to bring it back to power in
the Gandhi family alone is not re- and there was no need for Sonia meeting of the Congress Working the country.
sponsible for the recent drubbing of Gandhi to resign as party president. Committee, the members told Sonia The statement from Moily came
the party in the five Assembly states
Kharge said that during the Gandhi that the Gandhi family alone Continued at next page... >>

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