New Delhi: Congress on Sunday said reports on party leadership changes at Lok Sabha were “preterm and unfounded”.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is the leader of the Congress at Lok Sabha and there are reports of his successors, the days before parliament will meet.
Monson Parliament sessions are scheduled to start from July 19 and Congress will increase heat to the government over various problems.
“News of the change in party leadership at Lok Sabha is premature and unfounded,” said the leader of the senior Congress to PTI.
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Congress is considering replacing Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury his leader at Lok Sabha and pointed to a new face to catalyze the opposition strategy at home and outside and the government’s corner in parliament.
The source said this was to offer the olive branch to the leader of Trinamool Mamata Banerjee, Asat Briefing of the Indian Congress Committee (AICC), a spokesman for the Pawan Khera Party missed the question.
Asked about pending changes at the party, he said it was a sustainable process in any organization.
The source said there was no decision taken at the top level to replace Chowdhury as Congress leader at Lok Sabha.
Chowdhury is also the president of the Congress unit in West Bengal, where the old Grand Party is empty after binding with the front left of the front and the Secular Front of India (ISF) in a recent assembly poll.
The party assessed the loss but there was no decision taken to change leadership in West Bengal, the source said.
Some leaders of the “Group of 23”, who have written to the President of Congress Sonia Gandhi are looking for organizational improvements, have objected to the party’s association with Isf West Bengal.