New Delhi : Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal raised questions on delay in the election of the party president on Wednesday. Sibal was addressing a press conference spoke on the behalf 23 leaders (G-23), who wrote a raised questions on the way in which the Indian National Congress (INC) was led, in their strongly worded letter to party president Sonia Gandhi last year.
“In our party, there is no president. So we don’t know who is taking these decisions. We know and yet we don’t know,” Kapil Sibal said.
“I am speaking on behalf of my personal capacity and like-minded people who had written the letter last year. I stand here with a heavy heart. I am a part of a party that has a glorifying past. I can’t see the situation it is at the moment,” Sibal said.
In our party, there is no president so we don't know who is taking these decisions. We know & yet we don't know: Congress leader Kapil Sibal in Delhi pic.twitter.com/b5nrdktyZT
— ANI (@ANI) September 29, 2021
Interestingly, the statement came amid the ongoing Punjab crises. Sibal further said, “There is no president. The demand is growing to call CWC (Congress Working Committee) to have some dialogue. Ironically, those who were supposed to be close to the central leadership have left them.”
#WATCH | We are not “Jee Huzoor 23”. It is very clear. We will keep talking. We will continue to reiterate our demands: Congress leader Kapil Sibal, one of the 23 party leaders who wrote a letter to Congress president last year, demanding a slew of organizational reforms pic.twitter.com/JIy4HYqHeT
— ANI (@ANI) September 29, 2021
“I would urge those leaders who left to come back because the Congress party is alone which can save the country”, Sibal said.
Stating on the current Punjab crises and former Congressmen Navjot Singh Sidhu he said, “What’s happening in Punjab, which is just 300 kilometres away from Pakistan border, and we know of the situation which has transpired in the state with regards to insurgency and the ISI”.
