Shashi Tharoor attended a Congress dissidents (G-23) meeting in Delhi
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has joined a meeting of Congress dissidents in Delhi on the recent setback in state elections. The Congress G-23 or group of dissident leaders are meeting at Ghulam Nabi Azad's home amid calls for organisational changes.
Mr Tharoor, so far who has been seen as a fence-sitter on the matter, seems to have taken a side.
"I have learned so much from my mistakes, I'm thinking of making a few more," Mr Tharoor said in a cryptic tweet.
"Without comments," he tweeted.
The leaders at the G-23 meeting are Kapil Sibal, Shashi Tharoor, Anand Sharma, Manish Tewari, Bhupinder Hooda, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, Akhilesh Prasad Singh, Prithviraj Chavan, PJ Kurien, Mani Shankar Aiyer, Kuldeep Sharma and Raj Babbar.
Sources said the meeting was first called at Mr Sibal's home but the setting was changed because many leaders were "uncomfortable" after his open attack on the Gandhis.
Mr Sibal has said the Gandhis - Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra - should step aside and give some other leader a chance to lead the party.
"Leadership is in cuckoo land...I want a sab ki Congress. Some want a ghar ki Congress," Mr Sibal had told the Indian Express after the congress working committee met on Sunday and after almost five hours of deliberations, asked Sonia Gandhi to continue to lead the party and make changes to strengthen it.
The Congress faces an existential crisis following its electoral defeats in the recent assembly elections, including in Uttar Pradesh where it won only two seats and a little over 2 per cent of the votes.
The Congress faces an existential crisis following its electoral defeats in the recent assembly elections, including in Uttar Pradesh where it won only two seats and a little over 2 per cent of the votes.