SENIOR Congress leaders Kapil Sibal and Anand Sharma on Saturday stated that the G-23 or the Group of 23 dissenting leaders are seeing the Congress party “getting weaker” and are raising their voice for the betterment of the party. “The truth is that we see Congress party getting weak. That is why we have gathered here. We had gathered together earlier too and we have to strengthen the party together,” Sibal said at the ‘Shanti Sammelan’ event here. Anand Sharma who addressed the ‘Shanti Sammelan’ said that “Congress has weakened in the last decade.” “Our voice is for the betterment of the party. It should be strengthened everywhere once again. The new generation should connect (to party). We have seen good days of Congress.

 

We do not want to see it weakening as we become older,” he said. Sibal and Sharma along with former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Raj Babbar and Vivek Tankha are among other Congress leaders who were present at the event organised by former elections when they were always enjoying the ‘fruits of power’? Why are they not campaigning in the state elections that are due?” In solidarity with the former Leader of Opposition, Congress dissenters including Kapil Sibal, Raj Babbar, Manish Tewari were in Jammu and chose to attack the party. Anand Sharma attacked those who have been critical of them.

 

He said, “I have not given anyone the right to tell me if we are people of the Congress or not, no one has that right and we will build the party, we will strengthen it and believe in the strength and unity of Congress.” He added that most of the leaders have covered a very long distance to reach where we are today. “Nobody among us has come through the window, all of us have walked through the door.”