New Delhi:
Congress president Sonia Gandhi won’t attend the primary a part of the parliament session – beginning Monday – as she left the nationwide capital for her annual test up overseas in the present day, sources say. Whereas Mrs Gandhi will stay overseas for at the least two weeks, her son, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who’s accompanying her, is anticipated to return after just a few days, when Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joins them.
A day earlier than her departure, Mrs Gandhi made key organisational modifications by which a number of “dissent” letter writers, who had been seen to have questioned the management of the Gandhis final month, misplaced their posts in a significant shake-up.
Probably the most notable of the leaders faraway from the publish of get together basic secretary is Ghulam Nabi Azad, the de-facto chief of a gaggle of 23 senior get together males, who had written to Mrs Gandhi searching for sweeping modifications within the get together’s organisational construction. They’d additionally talked about “collective management” of the get together which was seen as an assault on the Gandhis.
Motilal Vora, Ambika Soni and Mallikarjun Kharge had been additionally eliminated as basic secretaries of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) within the Friday shuffle by Mrs Gandhi.
