Congress leaders Ashok Gehlot, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and others arrived at 10 Janpath on Saturday for a meeting with the party’s Interim President Sonia Gandhi.
Other Congress leaders who arrived for a meeting are Anand Sharma, BS Hooda, Ambika Soni, and P Chidambaram. After months of infighting, this is the first time Sonia Gandhi is meeting the rebels.
The dissent letter writers who are present in the meeting include, Gulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Vivek Tankha, Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tiwari, and Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
Sonia Gandhi has called for a meeting of senior party leaders today to formulate the party’s strategy on the current political scenario amid the ongoing farmers’ agitation against farm laws. The meeting will continue for 10 days.
In a press briefing, Congress general secretary said Sonia Gandhi will hold a meeting with party leaders for the next 10 days.
Sonia Gandhi will also discuss the scrapping of the winter session of Parliament by the central government with senior leaders comprising the party’s Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs.