Nw : Congress chief Sonia Gandhi meets Himachal leaders, takes stock of election readiness

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday met a delegation of senior leaders from Himachal Pradesh to review the celebration’s preparations for Assembly elections later this year. One after the other, Rahul Gandhi held a meeting with the pinnacle management of the celebration from Gujarat, which will scoot to polls in conjunction with Himachal.

Sonia underlined the need for unity, a routine suggestion that the management offers at such huddles. However with this meeting, Sonia has signalled that she is attend in motion. It was Rahul Gandhi who had been maintaining such conferences with negate leaders. Sources acknowledged most leaders argued that the Congress can fabricate a comeback in Himachal.

The emergence of AAP was also a level of debate. After the AAP’s landslide victory in Punjab, there had been fears within the Congress that its affect can be felt in neighbouring Himachal. However many of the leaders who attended the meeting told Sonia that AAP might perchance perchance well not be a wide part in Himachal and that the disclose in Punjab and Himachal was not the same.

The sense was that the AAP will register its presence and never scoot beyond that. However about a of the leaders admitted there can be some desertions from the celebration.

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann are location to preserve a avenue point to in Mandi on April 6.

“It was a routine meeting. What raise out we question when 20-uncommon leaders, along side many who don’t gape take into yarn to take into yarn with one any other, take a seat together? One particular person even suggested to Sonia that she can also unexcited preserve one-to-one conferences with the overall leaders to know the truth on the bottom,” a shuffle-setter acknowledged. “All individuals acknowledged we’re going to have the flexibility to also unexcited earn our act together and be united. However are we united?” acknowledged any other chief.

Rahul, within the period in-between, held a meeting with Gujarat Congress chief Jagdish Thakor and CLP chief Sukhram Rathva. Rahul is inclined to scramble to Gujarat within the first week of April to flag off a ‘padayatra’ (foot march) that the celebration is casting off from Sabarmati Ashram to Delhi to sign the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence.