The leaders of the 'group of 23' have claimed that they are wanting reforms in the party in order to strengthen the organisation to take on the BJP and Narendra Modi and are raising issues in the interest of the party. Bypassing state president and writing to Sonia and Rahul is a violation of the discipline, he added. However, the same could not happen in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Mir loyalist claimed that they all were acting on the instructions of Azad. Sonia Gandhi has thereafter held a meeting with some such leaders including Azad and it was decided to hold elections for the new Congress president by June.
Azad, along with 22 other leaders, had last year written to Congress president demanding organisational overhaul and elections to all party posts. She is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who joined WFAA in October of 2015. Their demand comes in the wake of turmoil in Punjab Congress after the ouster of Amarinder Singh as chief minister former Goa chief minister Luizinho Faleiro and leaders like Sushmita Dev and Abhijeet Mukherjee quitting the party and senior Kerala Congress leader V M Sudheeran resigning from the AICC. Sonia Azad is an American reporter at WFAA in Dallas, TX, specializing in health and wellness reporting. In fact, the funny thing about her arrival is that is coincided. KTRK abc13 reporter Sonia Azad is leaving the station. Sonia Azad joins WFAA 8 after KTRK abc13. Senior party colleague has also demanded that an immediate meeting of the CWC, the highest decision-making body of the party, be convened and wondered who in the party was taking decisions in the absence of a full-time president. KTRK abc13 reporter takes off from abc13 hopefully she wont follow me this time. Sources said Azad, a former leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha who currently leads the ' Group of 23' leaders who have demanded organisational overhaul in the past, has sought internal discussions in the wake of exodus of its leaders. NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has written to party president Sonia Gandhi demanding an immediate meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) to discuss the current state of affairs in the organisation.