I am a full-time president of the INC: Sonia Gandhi
I am a full-time president of the INC: Sonia Gandhi
In a clear message to the Group of 23 letter writers who had sought internal reforms in the Congress, party president, Sonia Gandhi, on Saturday, reminded that she was a full-time, hands-on president and there was no need for colleagues to speak to her through the media.
Revival of the organisation required “unity, discipline, self- control and keeping party’s interest paramount”, she stated. Her comments are being seen as a direct rebuttal of senior leader Kapil Sibal’s remarks that “in our party, at the moment, there is no president”.
Senior G-23 members such as Shashi Tharoor had talked about the need for a permanent president to revive the party. Though it is yet to be officially announced, the party is learnt to have discussed and fixed an election schedule of September 2022 to elect new office-bearers, including a new party chief.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party leader Rahul Gandhi during the Congress Working Committee meeting in New Delhi on October 16, 2021.
“I am, if you will allow me to say so, a full-time and hands on Congress president,” Gandhi observed. In the past two years, a large number of young colleagues have taken leadership roles in taking party policies and programmes to the people, she asserted.
“I have always appreciated frankness. There is no need to speak to me through the media. So let us all have a free and honest discussion. But what should get communicated outside the four walls of this room is the collective decision of the CWC,” she noted.
Talking about the party’s revival, a key theme raised by the G-23, she said, “The entire organisation wants a revival of the Congress. But this requires unity and keeping the Party’s interests paramount. Above all, it requires self-control and discipline”.
Gandhi said that the party had always stated on its position on a numerous issues from the farmers’ agitation, relief provision during the pandemic, issues concerning youth and women, atrocities on Dalits, Adivasis and minorities, price rise, and the destruction of the public sector---the party had never shied away from raising issues of public importance. “Never have we let issues of public importance and concern go unaddressed. You are aware that I have been taking them up with the Prime Minister as have Dr. Manmohan Singh and Rahul ji. I have been interacting with like-minded political parties regularly. We have issued joint statements on national issues and coordinated our strategy in Parliament as well,” she remarked.
In her opening remarks, Gandhi also spoke about the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, the farmers’ agitation, inflation, foreign policy and the continuing border stand-off with China, targeted killing in Jammu and Kashmir and the disinvestment process.
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