Salman Khurshid has been upset by the 23 leaders who had stirred up the Congress. (FILE)
New Delhi:
Senior Congress chief Salman Khurshid will head a employees which will draw up the Congress manifesto ahead of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh — due two years later. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, put answerable for the event in japanese Uttar Pradesh, has already started establishing teams, sources inside the event said.
Congress leaders akin to Jitin Prasad and Raj Babbar, who’ve been signatories to a letter to event chief Sonia Gandhi for a re-haul of the organisation, have did not uncover a spot inside the new committees. People who denounced the letter writers inside the “Group of 23” like Nirmal Khatri and Naseeb Pathan have found places inside the panels launched on Sunday night time.
Closing 12 months, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Ms Gandhi Vadra was given value of delivering Uttar Pradesh to the Congress inside the subsequent state elections. Her brother Rahul Gandhi, who was the chief of the event on the time, had moreover given value of western Uttar Pradesh to his closest aide, Jyyotiraditya Scindia, who has since joined the BJP.
Ms Gandhi Vadra has her exercise decrease out. The enjoyment over her appointment had not translated to votes inside the Lok Sabha election. The Congress has logged its worst effectivity ever inside the state, the place its space had shrunk to 2 seats. Though Sonia Gandhi retained Rae Bareli, Rahul Gandhi had misplaced the family turf Amethi to the BJP’s Smriti Irani.
It has now fallen on Mr Khurshid — a Gandhi family loyalist — to help improve the event’s fortunes inside the state in framing a imaginative and prescient for the long term .The earlier minister, who was born in Aligarh, represented Farrukhabad in central Uttar Pradesh in parliament.
A Gandhi family loyalist, Mr Khurshid has been upset after the newest dissent by a ginger group of 23 leaders that had stirred up the Congress. Days later, he firmly backed the Gandhis, saying it was time for a consensus, not elections.
“I’ve said very clearly that the Gandhis are leaders of the Congress. Nobody can deny this. Even the opposition cannot deny this… I don’t concern about whether or not or not or not we now have a president. Now we now have a frontrunner (in Rahul Gandhi) and that is comforting for me,” the earlier Union minister had knowledgeable PTI in an interview.
Amongst these inside the new teams for Uttar Pradesh are, former state unit chief Nirmal Khatri inside the Teaching and Cadre Progress Committee, whereas Naseeb Pathan is part of the Programme Implementation Committee. Every had denounced the letter-writers and demanded movement in the direction of them.
Whereas Salman Khurshid, PL Punia, Aradhana Misra, Supriya Shrinate, Vivek Bansal and Amitabh Dubey are inside the Manifesto Committee, these inside the Outreach Committee embody Pramod Tiwari, Pradip Jain, Gajraj Singh, Naseemuddin Siddiqui, Imran Masood and Bal Kumar Patel.
After the Congress letter — the place senior leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal, Shashi Tharoor and Anand Sharma had pushed for change in administration — all of them purchased not famous from a listing of large promotions handed out by the event’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi.
Gaurav Gogoi and Ravneet Singh Bittu have been appointed deputy chief and whip inside the Lok Sabha. Senior chief and former Union minister Jairam Ramesh, who was not among the many many dissenters each, was appointed Chief Whip of the Congress.
