Following the party’s poor performance in the recently concluded five state assembly elections, Congress President Sonia Gandhi has asked the Presidents of the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur to resign so that the reorganization facility to be available. The top post of the state unit.
The Congress failed to grab the four BJP-ruled states and lost Punjab to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Uttarakhand Congress chief Ganesh Godiyal and Goa Congress chief Girish Chodankar have already resigned taking moral responsibility for the defeat, while Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu and Manipur Congress chief Namirakpam Loken Singh have resigned. is expected. Resign any time now on the poor performance of the party in the elections.
Surjewala said on Twitter, “Congress President, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi has asked the PCC Presidents of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur to tender their resignations to facilitate the reconstitution of the PCC.
Congress President, Smt. Sonia Gandhi has asked the PCC chairpersons of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur to tender their resignations to facilitate the reorganization of the PCC.- Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) 15 March 2022
This came after a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) chaired by Sonia Gandhi on Sunday to introspect the Congress’s rout in five states – Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Manipur. In the nearly five-hour long meeting, CWC members had urged Sonia Gandhi to lead and initiate necessary changes to strengthen the party.
In the CWC meeting, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad raised the demand for fixing the responsibilities.
Tension has risen within the Congress following the election disaster, and dissidents from the party, known as the Group of 23 Leaders (G-23), are apparently angry with the old party leadership’s working style.
Kapil Sibal, the most prominent of the leaders of G23, has said that the Gandhi family should separate and give another leader a chance to lead the party. He said, ‘Leadership is on cuckoo’s land, I want ‘Sab ki Congress’. Some people want ‘Ghar ki Congress’,” Sibal told The Indian Express in an interview.
Since the 2014 electoral defeat, the Congress has consistently lost elections except on a few occasions, he said, adding that “the CWC has expressed confidence in the party leadership, but people outside the CWC feel that otherwise many have Have left the party and new leaders should be given a chance to lead the party.”
Sibal, who is not a member of the CWC, is one of the signatories to a letter to Sonia Gandhi calling for reforms within the party.
Rahul Gandhi had resigned from the post of Congress chief after the party suffered a second consecutive defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Sonia Gandhi, who took over the reins of Congress again as interim president, had also offered to step down in August 2020 following strong criticism by a section of leaders, called G-23, but the CWC released her. requested to keep.
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