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With the G-23 leaders stepping up demands for organizational changes after the party’s rout in the five states that went to the polls- Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Goa, Punjab and Uttarakhand , Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi is learnt to have told the leaders from the dissident faction that no major changes in the organisation could be possible until the election for the post of party’s president is held in August-September this year.
Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday afternoon met G23 leaders Anand Sharma, Manish Tewari and Vivek Tankha at her residence in New Delhi as part of her efforts to resolve the deepening rift within the party after the poll rout of Congress in fives states in the recently concluded Assembly elections.
As per sources, the Congress leaders in the meeting pointed out a lack of collective leadership in the decision-making process.
While G-23 leaders are pressing for organizational changes, Sonia Gandhi is learnt to have said that the requisite measures will be taken after the August-September elections for party president.
Quoting Sonia, sources said, “By August-September, the election for party’s president will be over. Focus on that. I can make changes only to a certain extent by then.”
