New Delhi: The ongoing Punjab crisis and the recent high-profile exits from the Congress have prompted its Group of 23 (the group that wrote to party president Sonia Gandhi demanding sweeping changes in the party structure) to once again express concern over what they called was the continuing drift in the party.
Former Union Minister Kapil Sibal, part of a group that is demanding elections and reforms in the party, told reporters at a press conference that, ‘in our party, at the moment, there is no president and one doesn’t know who is taking these decisions’.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is also part of the group , wrote a fresh letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to convene a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) for a debate on the state of affairs in the party, including the Punjab turmoil and desertions from the party.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma today expressed disgust over party workers’ protest outside Kapil Sibal’s house after he raised questions over the functioning of the Congress and asked AICC chief Sonia Gandhi to take strong action against those involved.
Soon after Kapil Sibal taunted the Gandhis with his ‘G-23, not Ji Huzoor-23’ comment, party workers protested outside his house with ‘Get well soon; placards, threw tomatoes and damaged his car.
Workers of the Youth Congress also raised slogans of ‘Leave the party! Come to your senses!” and “Rahul Gandhi Zindabad!’