Not Ji Hujoor-23,Cong a without prez who takes decision, asks Sibal

"In Congress, there is no elected president now. We don't know who is taking decisions," senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Wednesday rasied some uncomfertable questions for the party high command. Sibal questioned the delay in the election of the party president, saying the party was in a situation where it should not be. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Kapil Sibal spoke on behalf of the group of 23 leaders (G-23), who wrote a strongly worded letter to party president Sonia Gandhi last year, raising questions over the manner in which the party was being led.

"Why are people leaving? Maybe we should see whether it is our fault? We have to immediately call a CWC, at least so a dialogue can take place. We won't leave the ideology of the party and go anywhere else. The irony of the Congress is that those who are close to them (leadership) have left and those who they think are not close to them are still there," Sibal said. The comments come in the middle of the Congress's crisis in Punjab, where state chief Navjot Sidhu has quit just days after he set the stage for party stalwart Amarinder Singh's replacement as Chief Minister.

Another G-23 leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad, has written to Sonia Gandhi asking for a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on the string of exits from the party and its crisis in Punjab. The Congress leader also said that G-23 will raise issues that need to be addressed. “It is very clear. We are G-23 not Ji Huzoor 23. We will keep talking. We will continue to reiterate our demands,” Sibal said.