If Congress loses Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry – seven Congress stalwarts will in all probability type a brand new celebration

After the much-publicised letter by the 23 Congress leaders for adjustments in high-command, the celebration would possibly face one other revolt very quickly, led by none aside from Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was one of many 23 leaders who had written to Sonia Gandhi, asking for change.A couple of days in the past, Kapil Sibal and Anand Sharma criticised Rahul Gandhi’s North-South comment. Now Ghulam Nabi Azad has taken six different senior leaders of the celebration – Kapil Sibal, Anand Sharma, Vivek Tankha, Akhilesh Prasad Singh, Manish Tewari, and Bhupinder Hooda – to Jammu, his Karmabhoomi, on a three-day go to. Jammu has performed a vital position within the rise of Ghulam Nabi Azad, and, after the tip of the time period, he’ll in all probability shift again to town.As of now, he’s on a three-day go to to Jammu and has taken six different senior leaders who’re additionally dissenters of high-command, to town. This looks like a present of energy by senior Congress leaders to Sonia Gandhi.Anand Sharma, who hoped to get nominated because the chief of Rajya Sabha, was dumped by Congress for the household loyalist Mallikarjun Kharge. In the previous couple of days, Sharma has made many statements towards the functioning of the celebration, and likewise criticised Rahul Gandhi over his North-South assertion. After the high-command selected Kharge over him, many senior leaders of the Congress who have been a part of the insurgent group steered that he ought to resign from Rajya Sabha, however as an alternative, he selected to restrain by siding with Azad.Azad, who enjoys an excellent rapport with alliance events like RJD, DMK, and others, is generally a negotiator on behalf of the celebration for seat allocation with alliance companions. However, Congress selected Randeep Surjewala as a negotiator with DMK this time as an alternative of Azad regardless of his good relations with DMK’s senior leaders, and this has miffed the previous CM of Jammu and Kashmir.Showing religion in Surjewala additionally didn’t go nicely with Bhupinder Singh Hooda as each are rivals in Haryana Congress. Previously Surjewala and Kumari Selja, who leads the anti-Hooda faction in Haryana Congress, stopped the makes an attempt by Hooda to instrument the autumn of the BJP-JJP alliance authorities, and Rahul Gandhi selected to aspect with them as an alternative of Hooda.Other leaders like Manish Tewari and Kapil Sibal are identified for criticising the Congress high-command repeatedly for being ineffective and now have one different level to show to Sonia Gandhi, and due to this fact, they determined to go to Jammu beneath the management of Azad.In the letter by 23 leaders episode, Senior Congress chief Sibal had mentioned, “That is the fundamental thing that should have happened. This is what these 23 people have written. If you find fault with any of what we have written, then, surely, we can be questioned and we should be questioned…But if you don’t talk of substance and talk of either timing or the fact that we wrote, that itself is an example of distancing yourself from the cause. And that has what has happened. Not one request of ours, a concern of ours, reflected in the letter has been sought to be addressed in that meeting. Not one. Yet we are called dissenters,”He additionally added, “In the course of the (CWC) meeting we were called traitors and nobody sitting in that meeting including the leadership told them that this is not the kind of language.”It appears the Congress celebration is getting ready to collapse. Although the celebration has suffered many defections earlier, from Mamata Banerjee who fashioned TMC to Sharad Pawar who got here up with NCP in 1999 (and plenty of different smaller ones like YSRCP) and has survived all the previous breakups, this time its survival is at stake.In many of the earlier defections besides 1999, the recognition of the leaders was restricted to 1 state, and the Congress celebration suffered a loss in that state solely, however this time it’s extra of an organisational downside as an alternative of that of a single chief. So, it will likely be attention-grabbing to see whether or not the Gandhi household is ready to hold its maintain over the grand previous celebration this time.