We are reformists, not rebels, says Ghulam Nabi Azad

New Delhi, Nov 22 : Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is one of the dissenters who had questioned the party leadership and functioning, has sought that the party hold elections to strengthen the organisation and make it more responsible.
Dismissing allegations of rebellion levelled at the dissenters, Azad, the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, said “we are reformists” and “this is all for the revival of the party”.
Becoming the second senior leader after former Union Minister Kapil Sibal to speak out on party affairs after the party’s dismal performance in the Bihar Assembly polls, Azad said that the “Congress should shed the five star culture, at least in elections”, and insisted that leaders should hit the roads and reach out to people.
“There is no connect between the leaders and the people,” he contended.
Insisting on the organisational elections which was a key demand by the “G23” group, Azad held that elections from block to state chief should be held “so that people should be more responsible and work for the party”.
Azad also said that there is no issues with the first family in the Congress and gave a clean chit to interim chief Sonia Gandhi and former President Rahul Gandhi.