Ice Broken But No Thaw Yet as Sonia Gandhi Meets G23 ‘Rebels’; Rahul Skirts Leadership Question
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The much-anticipated meeting between Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and senior leaders from the so-called Group of 23 ‘dissenters’ did break the ice between loyalists and those seen as rebels, but wasn’t able to completely mend ties.
The meeting took place in the backdrop of a string of electoral losses for the Congress in state and local body elections as had been predicted by the dissenters in their letter to Sonia Gandhi in August. The group, which included Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma and Manish Tewari, had warned that the party’s fortunes would not change for the better in the absence of clarity on leadership.