Congress stares at cash crunch

Congress stares at cash crunch : Congress, the grand old party of India, is facing an immense financial crisis. Sonia Gandhi recently shared this concern with CPI MP D Raja saying that after the defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls no industrialist or businessman visits 10 Janpath or the AICC to offer their yearly contributions. Insiders in the AICC have also shared this concern with senior leaders.

Punjab CM Amarinder Singh and Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah give ‘monthly donations’ but that is not sufficient. Paying salaries to the AICC staff members, and paying the staff, numbering 65 to 70, manning Sonia and Rahul Gandhis’ offices, is getting to be difficult. In fact, we hear that they have not been paid for the last three months.

Sonia Gandhi’s main concern now is that the party may not have the funds to fight the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Opposition Leader in the Rajya Sabha, has made allegations that Congress leaders’ phones are tapped to know which industrialist makes donations to Congress. Azad spoke in Rajya Sabha after Sonia Gandhi asked him to go public that the Congress is facing a financial crisis.