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  • G-23 excluded as Congress discusses Prashant Kishor’s proposals for 2024 Parliamentary polls

    By way of IANS

    NEW DELHI: The crowd of dissidents within the Congress — G-23 — appears to be disenchanted after no longer being consulted for the continuing discussions at the proposals given by means of political strategist Prashant Kishor as roadmap for the 2024 overall elections.

    On Wednesday, two Congress CMs, Ashok Gehlot from Rajasthan and Bhupesh Baghel from Chhattisgarh, have been referred to as to Delhi to talk about the proposals.

    Whilst a number of Congress leaders have been provide for the discussions, ever because the formal consultations started at the proposals, G-23 leaders weren’t made birthday party to them, together with one of the vital senior maximum leaders of the Congress, Ghulam Nabi Azad.

    Then again, one of the vital signatories of the letter written to Sonia Gandhi by means of the G-23 leaders, Veerappa Moily, has stated that this is a welcome transfer to rope in Kishor. In the meantime, Gehlot stated that “Kishor is a emblem now”, hinting that the birthday party is raring to induct the political strategist into its fold.

    In keeping with Congress general-secretary Randeep Surjewala, the birthday party will come to a decision inside 48 hours in regards to the proposals and the imaginable induction of Kishor into the Congress.

    The Congress is now extra interested in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, which is able to move to the polls later this yr, as good fortune in state polls might be a very powerful going to the overall elections in 2024. In overall, there are six giant state elections forward of the Lok Sabha polls.

    Right through the 3 conferences with Kishor held since Saturday, the ones provide integrated Sonia Gandhi, Ambika Soni, AK Antony, Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal and Randeep Surjewala, amongst others. “Prashant Kishor has given an in depth presentation for the 2024 elections and the Congress President has deputed a small workforce to appear into it and report back to her inside per week. A last resolution might be taken after that,” Venugopal had stated.

    In keeping with resources, Kishor stated all through Saturday’s assembly that the Congress should goal 370-400 seats and paintings on alliances anywhere the birthday party is vulnerable.

  • After G-23 assembly, Rahul Gandhi meets Congress veteran Bhupinder Singh Hooda

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: An afternoon after the Staff of 23 pitched for an “inclusive and collective management” within the Congress, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, one in every of its individuals, Thursday met Rahul Gandhi and the 2 leaders had been learnt to have mentioned a revamp of the birthday party organisation, a key call for of the dissenters.

    The assembly is being observed as an strive via the Gandhi circle of relatives to achieve out to the G-23, which has proven indicators of accelerating aggression at the management factor after Congress’s abject loss within the meeting elections in 5 states.

    All the way through the assembly that lasted round an hour and part, the they deliberated at the birthday party’s defeat in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa, resources mentioned.

    Gandhi, a former Congress president, had known as Hooda for a dialogue at the political state of affairs in Haryana.

    Then again, amid calls via a bit of Gandhi circle of relatives loyalists for motion in opposition to G-23 chief Kapil Sibal, who lately mentioned the Gandhis must step apart and pave the best way for somebody else to take over the reins of the birthday party, Hooda is learnt to have conveyed to Rahul Gandhi that this sort of step shall be unacceptable to the grouping as Sibal had handiest spoken about strengthening the Congress.

    #UPDATE | Congress chief Kapil Sibal leaves from the place of dwelling of birthday party chief Ghulam Nabi Azad. He had arrived at his place of dwelling previous this night.

    Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Anand Sharma have additionally arrived on the place of dwelling of Ghulam Nabi Azad. %.twitter.com/oazD4NEufJ

    — ANI (@ANI) March 17, 2022

    The G-23 has been consistently in search of a restructuring of the organisation because it first wrote to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in 2020 about it after of a string of electoral losses and the birthday party’s diminishing clout.

    After the assembly, Hooda, a former leader minister of Haryana, visited Ghulam Nabi Azad, the casual chief of the grouping, on the latter’s place of dwelling.

    Hooda and Azad had been learnt to have mentioned “concrete proposals”, the main points of that have been no longer instantly identified, to support the Congress.

    The G-23 had made a robust pitch for “collective management” at its assembly right here on Wednesday.

    Deputy Chief of the Congress in Rajya Sabha and every other G-23 chief Anand Sharma additionally joined Hooda at Azad’s place of dwelling the place they mentioned the result of his assembly with Rahul Gandhi.

    Later within the night, Sibal additionally met Azad on the latter’s place of dwelling.

    The grouping had, in a remark on Wednesday, mentioned the “handiest future of the Congress used to be to undertake a style of inclusive and collective management and determination making in any respect ranges.” They insisted they need to support the Congress and “no longer undermine it in anyway.”

    Rahul Gandhi’s assembly with Hooda is very important within the context of the G-23 remark and the telephonic dialog Azad had with Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday. Sonia Gandhi had reached out to Azad forward of the G-23 assembly. Assets mentioned Azad is more likely to meet Sonia Gandhi with the proposals quickly and make a case for direction correction within the birthday party.