Signalling a big change in the party structure in the near future, four senior Congress ministers in the UPA government have offered to quit and expressed desire to work for the party.
As per reports, Tuesday, Law Minister Salman Khurshid, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vaylar Ravi, Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad and Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh have written separate letters to Congress president Sonia Gandhi expressing their wish to work for the party.
The Congress is surely at crossroads after the disastrous performance in the recently concluded Assembly Elections. Party leaders have been talking about the need to completely overhaul the party structure to make it fighting fit for Lok Sabha elections scheduled to be held in 2014.
Speaking to news channel, Khurshid refused to directly comment on the report. He said, “Party comes first, party makes the government, government does not make the party. All people must be rooted in the party…party cannot ever can take a second position.”
However, a senior journalist told a news channel that two ministers – Jairam Ramesh and Vaylar Ravi – have confirmed to him that they have offered to quit.
—-Agencies