Group of 23, or G-23, is part of the Congress party and not a rebel faction, senior leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Saturday.
“G-23 is not a faction within the Congress, the faction narrative is fiction of the media,’ he told India Today. “We are part and parcel of the Congress. G-23’s targets is not the Gandhi Family, our target is the BJP.”
Aiyar went to say: “BJP has to be stopped in its tracks. We also recognise that the Congress is hardly in a position today to be able to take them on.”
G-23 comprises veteran ongress leaders who have been seeking an organisational overhaul in the party since 2020.
Some of the G-23 leaders on Wednesday had met at former Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad’s home in Delhi to discuss the defeat in Assembly polls.
Since the meetings, G-23 leaders have met Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi.
Aiyar on Saturday said to India Today that the meetings held between G-23 leaders and the Gandhi family had gone well.
“G-23 member Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s meeting with Rahul Gandhi was very cordial, with the former apprising the latter of the conclusions drawn at the grouping’s back-to-back meet-ups earlier this week,” Aiyar said to India Today.
“We are receiving very good hearing from the Congress leadership, i.e. the interim president and Rahul Gandhi,” he added.
