New Delhi, 30/8: The G-23 is preparing itself to take the official faction in the Congress head-on by forcing a contest for the party president’s post despite odds against them, as it wants to bring the crisis the party is facing to the fore for a wider discussion.
Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor is the preferred choice of the now-diminished group, which wrote to Congress president Sonia Gandhi in August 2020 seeking a roadmap for organisational revamp, to take on the official candidate.
Sources said the dissidents were aware that the odds were stacked against them with the official candidate all set to win but they wanted to initiate a debate on the problems faced by the party and possible solutions to it