Time to hear party's young workers, says Shashi Tharoor ahead of Congress prez polls
India Today
Shashi Tharoor will lock horns with Mallikarjun Kharge in the upcoming election to choose the party’s president on October 17.
The young workers in the Congress must be heard, party MP and a candidate in the party’s presidential election said, adding that the leadership will now work to change the organizational structure of the party - the foremost demand of the Group of 23 dissident party leaders, or the G-23 members.
“We give respect to the big leaders, but it is time to hear the youth in the party. We will work to change the organisational structure of the party. Importance should be given to party workers,” Tharoor said in Nagpur, reported news agency ANI.
The G-23 has been demanding an organizational overhaul of the party, which has been registering a series of electoral losses since 2014.
Shashi Tharoor will lock horns with Mallikarjun Kharge in the upcoming election to choose the party’s president on October 17.
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