The BJP mocked the Congress Working Committee meeting as "parivar bachao working committee" and alleged that it offered no answers to issues of the party's internal rift and its leadership's failures
Addressing the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, interim President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday slammed party leaders for speaking to the media.
Congress' top brass began deliberations on key issues such as organisational elections, forthcoming assembly polls and the current political situation
Around this time the party was to hold elections to the post of party president. Amid Covid-19, the exercise was cancelled indefinitely after the CWC put its seal of approval on the cancellation
Analysts call it 'incremental movement' in addressing concerns of 23 dissidents
The Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Friday witnessed some heated exchange of words
The Congress on Friday demanded a JPC probe into the purported WhatsApp chats of Arnab Goswami for breach of national security
Congress General Secretary and national media in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala said, "CWC meeting begins. Congress President Sonia Gandhi addresses the CWC"
She also set up a special committee comprising senior leaders A K Antony, Ahmed Patel, and Ambika Soni to assist her in party matters
Khurshid said the leaders who have written to Sonia Gandhi always had access to her and could have approached her rather than writing to her
The signatories of the letter have been at loggerheads and termed dissenters within the party by Gandhi family loyalists
Former union minister Jitin Prasada called a 'traitor' by party colleague in UP district
Congress caught between the family and the hard place
The Congress Working Committee on Monday appeared set to close ranks behind Sonia Gandhi, urging her to stay on as party chief after she offered to step down as interim president
Kapil Sibal and 22 other party leaders who have written to Sonia Gandhi seeking a 'full-time' leadership.
"I am not aware of any such letter but if this is true, then it is unfortunate. They all have worked with the party for so long and the move of the letter is uncalled for," Gehlot said
Khurshid also said Rahul Gandhi enjoys the "full support" and "endorsement" of party leaders and workers, and it does not matter whether he wears the label of a president or not
Those made to feel insulted in the past by Rahul Gandhi seem to have joined hands to suggest that he admit lack of success in leading the party and pass the baton on to a committee-like structure
The signatories cutting across various age groups and regions, include senior Congress leaders, former union ministers and ex-CMs
Days after Sonia Gandhi completed a year as interim president of the party, Congress has convened a meeting of its working committee in which the issue of party leadership is likely to be discussed