Two masterminds of Congress dissent letter not among 23 signatories; claiming neutrality

On Monday, top sources told Republic TV that letter of dissent by 23 senior Congress leers is brainchild of two party functionaries who are t signatories to letter. two Congress leers who have facilitated dissenting letter have distanced mselves from eir camp for w. Sources ded that one of aforesaid leers is t even present in Delhi. Reportedly, leers behind letter are pretending to be neutral. It is perceived that fight between two camps is expected to escalate.

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Dissenting letter

Reportedly, several Congress leers wrote to Congress president on August 12 calling for sweeping changes in party's functioning.  23 leers who have signed  letter are Leer of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Az, Anand Sharma, Kapil Sibal, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor, Vivek Tankha, M Veerappa Moily, Mukul Wasnik, Jitin Prasa, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Prithviraj Chavan,  PJ Kurian, Ajay Singh, Renuka Chaudhary, Milind Deora, Sandeep Dixit, Raj Babbar, Arvinder Singh Lovely, Kaul Singh Thakur, Akhilesh Pras Singh, former Haryana Speaker Kuldeep Sharma and former Delhi Speaker Yoganand Shastri. 

y observed that uncertainly over leership and drift in party have weakened Congress and demoralized workers. letter reportedly mentioned many suggestions such as need for a full-time leership available at national and state hequarters, conducting elections at all levels including Congress Working Committee and state level, formation of an Independent Election Authority, and institutional leership mechanism to guide party's revival. 

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War of words at CWC meeting

At beginning of Congress Working Committee meeting, interim president Sonia Gandhi offered to resign. However, former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and ex-Defence Minister urged her to continue as president of Congress party. Speaking at meeting, Wayan MP Rahul Gandhi lamented that dissenting letter h been sent at a time when his mor was in hospital. reafter, he reportedly accused signatories to  letter of colluding with BJP. 

As per sources, 4 senior Congress leers logged off from CWC meeting in protest against former party president's remarks. Sources revealed that Rahul Gandhi's camp has said that details of letter should t have been released to media. It has also been alleged that 23 dissenting members “betrayed” Congress by going to media. After Ghulam Nabi Az and Kapil Az took objection to Gandhi's allegation, Congress went into dam control mode. According to sources, Wayan MP spoke to Sibal after which latter decided to withdraw his tweet. 

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