Prof K Nageshwar's video: G-23 Sonia reclaims center stage in Congress

కాంగ్రెస్ తెరపై మళ్ళీ సోనియా, G-23 జీ హుజూర్ || Sonia reclaims center stage in Congress? || Unfurling the national flag at the Congress headquarters on Sunday to mark the 75th Independence Day, Congress president Sonia Gandhi sought to subtly assert her leadership in the presence of ‘detractors’. Among the senior leaders present were prominent members of Congress’ 23 dissenters or G-23 — who had written to Ms. Gandhi last August, seeking inner party reforms and a ‘visible leadership’ among other issues — including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Anand Sharma. Other senior leaders who attended the celebrations included former party chief Rahul Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, former Defence Minister A.K. Antony, Pawan Bansal, and Partap Singh Bajwa. While Mr. Antony had unfurled the Tricolour last year during the first phase of the corona pandemic, Ms. Gandhi doing the honours this year carries a distinct, assertive political message. In the backdrop of party leader Kapil Sibal — also a member of the G-23 — hosting a dinner last week that was attended by Opposition heavyweights like NCP chief Sharad Pawar, RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav, CPI (M)’s Sitaram Yechury, and CPI’s D. Raja, Ms. Gandhi’s public engagements have been markedly different. For the first time during the corona period, she attended the monsoon session of Parliament for a couple of days and shared space with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah at the customary tea party hosted by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla at the end of the session. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sonia-hoists-tricolour-reclaims-centre-stage/article35925153.ece