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New Delhi [India]September 1 (ANI): Indian Abroad Congress basic secretary Virender Vashisht has condemned celebration chief Prithviraj Chavan, a member of the dissident Group of 23, for talking out towards Rahul Gandhi throughout current tv debate exhibits.
In an e-mail to the pinnacle of the celebration’s disciplinary committee, Tariq Anwar, Vashisht has demanded motion towards the previous Maharashtra chief minister.
In his letter, Vashisht mentioned, “I want to draw your consideration to the false statements made by Prithviraj Chavan on TV channels over the previous few days relating to the inner elections of the Congress celebration. I demand motion towards him as he has additionally spoken falsely towards Rahul Gandhi.”
This comes after the previous Maharashtra chief minister met Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was additionally a part of the G-23 group looking for reforms inside the celebration, at his residence on August 30. Chavan was accompanied by different G-23 members, ex-Haryana CM Bhupinder Hooda and Anand Sharma.
The assembly got here days after Azad resigned from the Congress, citing the “immaturity” of Rahul Gandhi, whom he blamed for “the demolition of the consultative mechanism” within the celebration.
G23 leaders included Shashi Tharoor, Azad (former chief), Mani Shankar Aiyar, Manish Tiwari and others who spoke out about organizational modifications within the Congress celebration.
Within the hard-hitting five-page letter, Azad had alleged {that a} cabal is operating the celebration whereas Sonia Gandhi was solely “a nominal head” and all main choices had been taken by “Rahul Gandhi or worse, his safety guards and PAs”.
Azad had mentioned he submitted his resignation with “nice remorse and a particularly heavy coronary heart” and broke his affiliation with the Congress of about 50 years. He was beforehand Chief of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha.
Speaking about his lengthy affiliation with the Congress, Azad mentioned the scenario within the celebration has reached some extent of no return.
“Sadly, the scenario within the Congress Get together has reached such some extent of no return that ‘proxies’ are actually being supported to take over the management of the celebration. This experiment is doomed to failure as a result of the celebration has been so utterly destroyed that the scenario has turn into irreparable. Furthermore, the ‘chosen one’ could be nothing greater than a puppet on a string,” he mentioned. (ANI)
