Congress forms two panels to look into assembly election defeat, Covid relief activities

Senior leaders together with Azad, Anand Sharma and Digvijaya Singh questioned the occasion’s determination to ally with the AIUDF in Assam and the ISF in West Bengal. (PTI)

After a nudge by interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the course of the Congress Working Committee meet, the occasion mentioned it has arrange two panels to look into the occasion’s defeat in current elections and to coordinate the organisation’s Covid-19 aid actions. Gandhi additionally signalled at reconciliation by together with senior leaders within the panels who’re a part of the G-23 group. It contains Ghulam Nabi Azad, Manish Tewari and Mukul Wasnik.

Whereas Ghulam Nabi Azad will head the 13-member panel fashioned to look into Covid aid actions, Tewari has been included in a five-member group headed by former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan to guage the outcomes of the Meeting elections. For Azad, that is his first occasion task after retirement from Rajya Sabha.

By together with senior leaders like Tewari and Azad in key panels, the Congress management hopes to mitigate attainable assaults from the G-23. Addressing the CWC meet, Sonia Gandhi mentioned that the Congress wants to know why in Kerala and Assam, the occasion didn’t dislodge incumbent governments and why in West Bengal, the occasion drew an entire clean. “These will yield uncomfortable classes, but when we don’t face actuality, if we don’t look info in face, we gained’t draw the suitable classes,” Sonia Gandhi has mentioned.

In the course of the assembly, senior leaders together with Azad, Anand Sharma and Digvijaya Singh questioned the occasion’s determination to ally with the AIUDF in Assam and the ISF in West Bengal.

Sharma had instructed that any alliance, be it at state stage or nationwide stage, needs to be finalized solely after due deliberations with involvement of senior management. Sharma even mentioned that introspection and evaluation have change into taboo phrases within the occasion and said that when options for introspection are given, they shouldn’t be taken in any other case. He mentioned that the Congress mustn’t change into illiberal just like the BJP.

The COVID panel headed by Azad contains Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Youth Congress president B V Srinivas, Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik, Pawan Bansal, Ok C Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Randeep Surjewala, Manish Chatrath, Ajoy Kumar, Pawan Khera and Gurdeep Singh Sappal as its members.