Team News Riveting
New Delhi, September 29
While the Congress is struggling to defuse the crises flared up by Navjot Singh Sidhu in Punjab, it received a volley from senior leader Kapil Sibal who pointed finger at the leadership.
“In our party at the moment there is no president,” Sibal told reporters Wednesday. “So we don’t know who’s taking decisions. We know yet we don’t know. A senior colleague has asked for the CWC (Congress Working Committee) to be convened so that what we can’t speak publicly we can have a dialogue as to why we are in this state,” said Sibal.
Claiming the situation in the Congress as “heart breaking”, the former Union Minister said the crises in Punjab Congress was advantageous to ISI (Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency). He said he was speaking for all his G23 colleagues, the group that wrote letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi last year to put the house in order and were dubbed as rebellion by a section of colleagues.
“People are leaving us,” Sibal said referring to the recent exits of Sushmita Dev, VM Sudheeran, Jitin Prasada, Jyotiraditya Scindia, late president Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit and Lalitesh Tripathi in UP. He added that the defectors could be criticised for leaving, “Congress must introspect why they left, whether there was some fault on our part?”
He urged everyone in the Congress to think of how to take the party forward and strengthen it and appealed to those who have left to come back.
“We are not those who will leave the ideology of the party and go elsewhere. It is ironic that closest of their aides have left and those they thought were not theirs are still with the party and are seeking to strengthen it,” Sibal said.
