New Delhi:
Days ahead of the state elections in Punjab, the Congress’s decision to drop two top leaders from its star campaigner list has drawn criticism. Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, and Rahul Gandhi among others are on the list that does not name Manish Tewari and Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Mr Tewari, who is the party’s only Hindu MP in Punjab, and Mr Azad were among the “G-23” rebel leaders who wrote to Sonia Gandhi in 2020 over the need for “sweeping changes” and urgent reforms in the party in an explosive letter. But the campaigners’ list on Friday had two other G-23 leaders – Anand Sharma and Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
