Congress clips wings of 'letter writers', appoints Gaurav Gogoi as deputy leader in LS

Two days after a stormy CWC meeting, the Congress leadership on Thursday sent out a strong statement of intent by curbing the role of “letter writers” in Parliament even as Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of the leading lights among the dissenters, reiterated the demand for elections to the working committee. Congress appointed younger MPs Gaurav Gogoi as deputy leader and Ravneet Bittu as whip in the Lok Sabha, ignoring Shashi Tharoor and Manish Tewari who were part of the group of 23 who wrote to party chief Sonia Gandhi calling for “full-time and effective leadership” besides an elected CWC and constitution of a parliamentary board.

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