After former union minister and Congress chief from Uttar Pradesh, Jitin Prasada ditched the get together to affix BJP, Rasheed Kidwai, a senior journalist near Congress, has stated in a report printed in India Today, how it’s the Sonia Gandhi issue that’s maintaining the defectors from leaving the get together simply but. Interestingly, whereas Rashid Kidwai doesn’t say it explicitly, it might look like as Sonia Gandhi has been making an attempt to maintain the get together from disintegrated, Rahul Gandhi has been conspicuously absent.
According to the journalist, many senior get together leaders have been vocal concerning the want for an entire overhaul of the get together with a purpose to rescue itself from sliding into imminent political oblivion. In reality, ex-party leaders like Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jitin Prasada, Bhubaneshwar Kalitha, Sanjay Sinh, Priyanka Chaturvedi and quite a few others had secured posts and positions within the grand-old-party, however nonetheless switched as a result of they noticed little or no way forward for the get together organisation.
Despite the truth that dissident leaders like Sachin Pilot, Navjyot Singh Sidhu, RPN Singh, and others from G-23 are dissatisfied with the Congress’s management vacuum, Kidwai says that they’re nonetheless sticking with the get together solely as a result of interim AICC President Sonia Gandhi has “sensed the disquiet”.
How Sonia Gandhi manages to retain RPN Singh regardless of the thrill of him ditching the get together
According to the journalist, there was a relentless buzz within the political circle, that RPN Singh, presently, the AICC’s level man for Jharkhand the place the Congress is in energy as a junior companion within the Hemant Soren ministry, may ditch the get together. Sonia Gandhi had known as RPN Singh’s mom, Mohani Singh, just a few months earlier to talk together with her. Mohani Singh is the widow of the previous minister of state for defence in Indira Gandhi’s council of ministers, again in 1980.
Mrs CPN Singh had reportedly assured Sonia Gandhi that RPN Singh, himself a former minister within the Manmohan Singh regime, wouldn’t go away the get together until the time she is alive.
Sonia Gandhi serves as a facilitator within the standoff between Gehlot and Sachin Pilot
Similarly, Sachin Pilot has been affected person, in line with Kidwai, regardless of the Rajasthan impasse having reached some extent of no return and Sonia Gandhi, the Congress’s chief, can also be credited with this, says the journalist. In his case too, Sonia Gandhi is making an attempt to do a harm limitation train. Sachin Pilot is predicted to fulfill Sonia Gandhi, after holding a rally on June 11. The way forward for the Rajasthan Congress would solely depend upon this assembly.
Role of Sonia within the return of Ghulam Nabi Azad to the Rajya Sabha
Likewise, one other distinguished member of Congress’ group of 23 dissenters (G-23), Ghulam Nabi Azad, was to face an unsure future in Parliament after his time period within the Rajya Sabha is ending on February 15, 2021.
He was unable to resume his RS time period from Jammu & Kashmir given the Legislative Assembly there stands dissolved. Here too, Sonia Gandhi got here to his rescue.
It was the get together supremo that accepted DMK’s proposal of inducting Azad to the Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu.
“In some ways, it was the DMK’s proposal that has been accepted by Sonia Gandhi but Ghulam Nabi Azad, a past master in the Congress durbar and loyalty tricks, would credit the Gandhis as his benefactors whenever a formal announcement is made”, claimed Rasheed Kidwai, the journalist recognized to be in thick with the Congress management.
For the unversed, many senior get together leaders, together with P Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal and others have been vocal concerning the want for an entire overhaul of the get together with a purpose to rescue itself from sliding into imminent political oblivion. About 23 dissenting leaders had shot off a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi again in August final yr, emphasising the necessity for sweeping adjustments to be made within the get together from high to backside with a purpose to arrest the eroding confidence of the get together’s assist base.