CWC meet: Senior leaders engage in verbal spat over internal elections

New Delhi, Jan 22 : The Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Friday witnessed some heated exchange of words among Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, senior leader Anand Sharma and several other dissenters over internal elections, party sources said.
According to a party source, Sharma, Ghulam Nabi Azad and P. Chidambaram raised the issue of the elections for the CWC post.
Following the issue of the elections, Gehlot ticked off the dissenters without naming them and said that a few party leaders keep on demanding for the organisational elections instead of discussing how to deal with the BJP.
The source also said that the Rajasthan Chief Minister has stated that party leaders are wasting time discussing irrelevant issues like party elections.
“We should leave the matters and decisions to the party’s president,” Gehlot said.
He also questioned the party leaders: “If they don’t believe the party leadership (Sonia Gandhi) or not?”.