Salman Khurshid slams G-23 leaders seeking reforms in Congress
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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Sunday hit out at some of the G-23 leaders who renewed their call for reforms in the party. Speaking to news agency PTI, Khurshid asked whether those who were calling for organizational polls within the Congress have got to where they are in the party in the same manner.
The G-23 leaders include former Kapil Sibal, former leader of opposition in RajyaSabhaGhulamNabi Azad, Anand Sharma, MilindDeoraetc who have sought a major organizational revamp of the Congress.
The calls for reforms and re-organizational polls come at a time when Congress is fighting an internal crisis on several issues. Several leaders of the party defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the latest one being JitinPrasada.
Prasada, who jumped ship to the BJP on June 9 ahead of the crucial assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in 2022, faced severe backlash from his former colleagues.
Salman Khurshid, who is close to the Gandhis, asserted that reforms can only be achieved by sacrificing and not by suddenly questioning something which one has taken advantage of over the years.
