A few days before the Congress President’s election, Shashi Tharoor met party interim President Sonia Gandhi at her Delhi residence. The Thiruvananthapuram MP, however, did not disclose what was discussed during the meeting or what was the agenda of the meeting.
Hours after the meeting, Tharoor, who is in the race for the party president’s post, tweeted a copy of a petition seeking constructive reforms in the party.
I welcome this petition which is being circulated by a group of youth @INCIndia The members are demanding constructive reforms in the party. It has collected over 650 signatures so far. I am happy to support it and go beyond it. https://t.co/2yPViCDv0v pic.twitter.com/waGb2kdbTu
— Shashi Tharoor (@shashi tharoor) September 19, 2022
Tharoor has been a member of G23 and had sought organizational reforms in a letter to Gandhi. He, along with the G23 leaders, has been critical of the Congress leadership.
The meeting assumes significance as it took place amid indications that Tharoor may contest the Congress president’s election and file his nomination which will begin on September 25. The notification for the election of Congress President will be done on September 22.
The Congress MP has repeatedly called for “free and fair” elections and even wrote to the party’s Central Election Authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry, demanding publication of electoral rolls for the upcoming elections.
Tharoor, along with his party colleague Manish Tewari, who is also a member of the G-23 group, has objected to the party not disclosing the names of voters for the party’s president elections and asked it to be published on all. needed. India Website of the Congressional Committee for a “Free and Fair” Process. Both Tharoor and Tiwari agreed that everyone should know who can nominate and who can vote.
Hitting out at the Gandhi family, Tharoor had said: “Many Congress supporters have been disappointed by Rahul Gandhi’s statement of refusing to contest elections and taking any member of the Gandhi family in his place. It is really for the Gandhi family to decide where they collectively stand on this issue, but in a democracy no party should be in a position to believe that only one family can lead it. ,
When asked whether he would contest for the Congress president’s post, Tharoor preferred to maintain the suspense. “I have no comments to make. From what I have written in my article, I accept that the election will be a good thing for the Congress party.”
(with inputs from PTI)
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