Congress leader Sonia Gandhi (left) and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee held a closed-door meeting recently
While no dissenter explicitly
asked Rahul Gandhi to step aside, the deep-seated disgruntlement stemmed from a
growing sense of exclusion among veteran stalwarts. Many questioned why the
very leaders who had built the UPA and revived the party were being systematically
kept out of the core decision-making matrix.
While Sonia Gandhi did invite
some of the rebels for separate ice-breaking meetings, she steadfastly refused
to accept that her son could be part of the structural problem. Over time, the
dissent faded; heavyweights like Ghulam Nabi Azad walked away, while others
were quietly co-opted back into the system.
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