Two years after raising the banner of revolt against the Congress party’s style of functioning, members of G-23 or the ginger group that pushed for internal reforms, on Friday backed veteran Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, in the Congress presidential election against Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor, who too was a member of G-23.
The decision to back Mr. Kharge was taken after an informal meeting between Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Prithviraj Chavan and Manish Tewari late on Thursday evening and all of them became his proposers.
Mr. Sharma and Mr. Tewari were among those leaders who had questioned the process of electing 9000-odd delegates who make up the electoral college of the Congress president.
