Sonia Gandhi met with party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday, after the core group of its “G-23” dissidents met for the third time since the election.
“It was a good meeting with Sonia Gandhi. All of the people in the Congress party agreed that she should stay on as president. We just had some shared ideas. “Mr. Azad said that he tried to play down talk that the party was becoming disillusioned.
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“In five states, the Working Committee was asked for ideas about why they lost. The meeting was about how to fight together in the upcoming assembly elections. There was no question about who was in charge, “he said more.
As of Wednesday, Mr. Azad and other dissidents have held a series of meetings to protest the Gandhi-family-friendly stance of the party’s top decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee.
Loyalists keep reaffirming the Gandhis’ leadership even though they have lost many times.
At the last CWC meeting, the party’s leaders turned down Sonia Gandhi’s offer to step down from all of her jobs with her two children, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
They’ve been trying to get the G-23 to change since they first wrote to Sonia Gandhi in 2020 after losing many elections. They lost Punjab and have been mostly wipe out in Uttar Pradesh and the other states.
In a statement on Wednesday, the group said that the “only way for the Congress to move forward was to adopt a model of inclusive and collaborative leadership and decision making at all levels.” They said they want to make Congress stronger and not “undermine it.”
Many people thought that Sonia Gandhi’s meeting with the G-23 was part of a more significant effort by the family to get to know them better.
Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had been at the G-23 meeting on Wednesday. On Thursday, Rahul Gandhi reached out to Hooda, who had been at the meeting on Wednesday.
He wanted to know who made the decisions in the party during the meeting; sources told the BBC. Mr. Hooda told Rahul Gandhi that the party leaders often found out about party decisions in the newspapers. He said that the party should make decisions together.
Mr. Hooda also said that the leaders of the G-23 have not done anything “anti-party” and that the meeting of the faction was held after Sonia Gandhi was told about it, too.
