Veteran Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday issued a clarification on his earlier statement, where he said he had not met Rahul Gandhi in the last four years. The member of the G23 rebel group said it was not always necessary to meet the former Congress president, as reported by the news agency ANI,
Chavan was quoted as saying, “He had resigned from his post in the organisation… He is opposing the Prime Minister Narendra Modi Going in his own way and at home and abroad. It is not necessary to meet him every time.”
He further said that in the last two years, it was not possible to meet anyone anyway due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In a recent interview, the former Maharashtra CM had said that he has not been able to meet Rahul in the last four years.
Chavan had also said that there was no “contemplation” or introspection at the recent Congress convention in Udaipur. “Whenever I am in Delhi, I sometimes meet Dr. Manmohan Singh. But his health was not the same as before. He is always hospitable and ready to talk. I have also met Sonia Gandhi whenever I asked for time, but I have not been able to meet Rahul Gandhi for a long time… I think in four years. There is a complaint that the party leadership is not as accessible as it should be,” Chavan said during the podcast.
The G23 is a group of disgruntled leaders pushing for organizational reforms in Congress, which has suffered one electoral setback in recent years. Speaking about the Chintan Shivir in Udaipur, Chavan said that the Congress president had agreed to hold a “chintan camp” to discuss the issues before the party, but someone “more loyal than the king” decided that There is no need for contemplation or introspection.
“So, the Udaipur meeting was a ‘nav-sankalp (new resolution) camp’. The party realized that post-mortem was not needed and it only needed to look to the future.” Don’t repeat those mistakes. After the Assam and Kerala assembly elections, a committee was formed to examine the party’s performance. But the committee’s report was buried in a cupboard, which is not correct.”
(with PTI inputs)
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