SALMAN KHURSHID HITS OUT AT CONG LETTER WRITERS

NEW DELHI: The disquiet within the Congress continues to grow with senior party leader Salman Khurshid asking ‘Group of 23’ leaders in an ‘open letter’ if they were changing their goal posts and whether it was fair on their part to kick the ladder that they climbed to reach the top storey of life.

Khurshid, a former Union minister, asked them to worry about how they would be judged in history than to seek a better place in the present.

His remarks come after a public display of anger by the G-23 leaders led by veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad in Jammu. He said they along with other Congress leaders must show the ordinary party workers across the country the path out of the present darkness towards sunshine instead of raising concerns about what they received.

“We thought the G-23 made their point and were suitably informed that party elections will be held when appropriate (something they agreed to in their interaction with the Congress president and later at the CWC). But are they changing the goal posts once again with the public display of disquiet (or reservations) in Jammu and as we are being told, very soon in Haryana,” he asked in the open letter.