Sonia Gandhi forms Congress panels; some letter-writers accommodated, Sibal left out

Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday formed three panels involving high leaders of the party. It is said that this step has been taken to keep the party’s position clear on matters like economic, foreign and national security. If one or two people are left in these panels, then most of the old leaders are
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Sonia Gandhi forms Congress panels; some letter-writers accommodated, Sibal left out

Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday formed three panels involving high leaders of the party. It is said that this step has been taken to keep the party’s position clear on matters like economic, foreign and national security. If one or two people are left in these panels, then most of the old leaders are included. These include former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and many other former Union Ministers.

These three panels are reported to include Ghulam Nabi Azad, along with leaders such as former Union ministers Anand Sharma, M Veerappa Moily and Shashi Tharoor, who wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi in August demanding change at all levels in the party. Was. Now the inclusion of old leaders in these panels is a sign that Sonia Gandhi still trusts them to make decisions on serious policy issues.

Let me tell you that these panels have been formed in Congress at a time when different voices were raised from the party on the issue of India’s separation from the RCEP agreement. Even the re-enactment of Article 370 has different voices of Congress leaders. Sonia Gandhi has now indicated that she has no anger for any member by including leaders who questioned the party’s working methods. His effort is also seen as pacifying the controversies that emerged after the Bihar election and by-election results in the party.

Some leaders who wrote letters not happy with the step of panel formation: However, on the other hand, many of the leaders who wrote letters to Sonia Gandhi to make policy changes in the party, are not being told anything happy with the step of panel formation. . A leader who was inducted into the panel said that the move was more entertaining than encouraging because the issues raised were not taken seriously yet and the party is on a steady slope.

Another leader said, “Instead of taking up institutional matters, we are asked to look at policy issues, the party already has several forums, which brief the Congress president on these issues and include the former prime minister in the panel. Doing it is like making the post they took in the past look small. ”

Which leader is included in which committee?

Congress president has included Manmohan Singh in all the three panels, besides former finance minister P Chidambaram has been made a part of the Committee on Economic Affairs. Former Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, former Madhya Pradesh CM Digvijay Singh and former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh will also be part of this group.

Apart from this, Anand Sharma, Shashi Tharoor, Salman Khurshid and the party’s young MP from Odisha Saptagiri Ulaka have been made part of the foreign affairs panel. Sharma has been made the head of the party’s foreign affairs department. The panel on national security issues includes Ghulam Nabi Azad, Veerappa Moily, Lok Sabha MP Vincent Pala and Lok Sabha MP V Vaithilingam. Former defense minister AK Antony and senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel have been excluded from these panels.