'No Split, But Gandhi Loyalists Must Go': Lowdown On Congress Rebels' Meet

Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of the leading members of the group of 23 "dissenters", is likely to meet with Congress president Sonia Gandhi to deliver the message from the meeting.

At a meeting of the Congress "G-23" or rebel group last night, leaders ruled out splitting the party for now, but called for the Gandhis to remove their loyalists from key posts, sources said today.

The party is "too weak" and won't survive the split, the dissenters reportedly discussed.

Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of the leading members of the group of 23 "dissenters", is likely to meet with Congress president Sonia Gandhi to deliver the message from the meeting.

An election post-mortem by the Congress Working Committee, the party's top decision-making body, on Sunday has reinforced the rebels' anger. They accuse the Congress of packing key panels with Gandhi family loyalists who, they say, have done little but shielded the top leadership while putting the blame on state leaders.