Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi met leader of Opposition in the Haryana Assembly and party veteran Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday. The meeting comes a day after Hooda attended a meeting of dissenting Congress leaders at the residence of Ghulam Nabi Azad where they discussed the Congress’ disastrous performance in the recently concluded Assembly elections in the five states and called an overall revamping of the party as the “only way forward”.
The dissenting leaders are commonly referred to as G-23 or Group of 23 and include party veterans Anand Sharma, Kapil Sibal, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor, Raj Babbar, Sandeep Dixit and some others. The leaders have been demanding organisational overhaul to revive the grand old party.
According to a PTI report, Hooda, the former chief minister of Haryana, visited Azad at his residence after meeting Gandhi.Hooda and Azad discussed concrete proposals to strengthen the Congress and ensure collective leadership and decision making as demanded by the grouping in a joint statement issued late on Wednesday.
