Some Congress dissenters now say "sorry" to Sonia Gandhi; others hold their ground

upheaval in Congress seeking 'organizational reforms', 'revival of party' and a 'n-Gandhi chief' has taken a twist for a group of dissenting netas with one group w claiming mselves to be 'proponents of change' rar than 'dissenters' and even going to extent of saying sorry to Sonia Gandhi. 

M Veerappa Moily, one of 23 senior Congress leers who signed letter seeking reforms, on Wednesday, said that leers are sorry if y have hurt Sonia Gandhi's feelings. Moreover, he asserted that y have never questioned her leership, but stressed that re is a need for rejuvenating and restructuring party. He also said that ne of 23 leers have any intention to leave Congress.

"We have never questioned leership of Soniaji. Soniaji is like a mor to party. We revere her even w. re is question of any intention to hurt her feelings. If we have hurt her (Sonia Gandhi's) feelings, we are sorry for it," Moily told news ncy Press Trust of India in an interview.

former Karnataka Chief Minister Moily also said that Sonia Gandhi in her concluding remarks at CWC meeting expressed that she does t hold anything or any kind of ill-will against any of her colleagues irrespective of how hurtful were remarks me by m.

Sonia Gandhi will continue to remain Congress interim chief till next AICC session. Sonia Gandhi was me interim chief a year ago after Rahul Gandhi resigned from position taking moral responsibility for party's disastrous performance in Lok Sabha elections.

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Day-long drama on Monday

23 leers h written to party's interim Chief Sonia Gandhi emphasising need for active revival of party. As CWC meeting began on Monday, sources reported that Sonia Gandhi offered to step down, whereas Rahul Gandhi expressed his displeasure at dissenting letter. An all-out war broke out between Ghulam Nabi Az, Kapil Sibal and Wayan MP after latter said that dissenters were 'in cahoots with BJP', which prompted Sibal to lash out on Twitter and Az to offer to resign.  temporary end to day-long drama came with Sonia Gandhi continuing to be 'interim' chief of grand-old party, till fresh elections are held by AICC in next six months. A 5-point resolution waxing lyrical about Sonia and Rahul Gandhi was issued. 

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Chaos far from over

Taking to Twitter on August 25, senior Congress leer Kapil Sibal - one of dissenters,  said that matter is about his country. In a two-line response to Congress party again selecting Sonia Gandhi as ir interim chief until next AICC session, Sibal said that it is t about a post, ding that country matters  most.

ditionally, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Vivek Tankha said that those who wrote letter are t 'dissenters' but 'proponents of revival'. In what seemed a face-saver from chaos that spilt out in open on Monday, Tankha ded that  letter was t a challenge to leership but a 'parchment of action to strengn party.' tably, Karti Chidambaram has retweeted Tankha's view. 

Senior party leer Anand Sharma also tagged Tankha's tweet and said, " letter was written with best interest of party in our hearts and conveying shared concerns over present environment in country and sustained assault on foundational values of constitution."

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On Monday, Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram exuded confidence in Congress emerging stronger after 23 senior party leers expressed ir dissent. According to him, discontent was instrumental for change. Asserting that one alleged that some Congress leers were colluding with BJP, Chidambaram revealed that some issues h alrey been dressed by party. 

signatories of letter were Ghulam Nabi Az, Moily, Sibal, Anand Sharma, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor, Wasnik, Vivek  Tankha, PJ Kurian, Renuka Chaudhary, Milind Deora, Ajay Singh, Jitin Prasa, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Rajender Kaur Bhattal and Prithviraj Chavan; former PCC chiefs Raj Babbar (UP), Arvinder Singh Lovely (Delhi) and Kaul Singh Thakur (Himachal); current Bihar campaign chief Akhilesh Singh, former Haryana Speaker Kuldeep Sharma; former Delhi Speaker Yoganand Shastri and former MP Sandeep Dixit. 

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