CWC meeting for the first time after electoral defeat in five states

New Delhi:

The Congress Working Committee, the Congress's top decision-making body, will meet at 4 pm to discuss the massive defeat in the state polls, and go ahead with the September internal elections, amid fresh questions about its leadership. is likely to

Important information related to the case:

  • The CWC meeting is going to take place at a time when the Congress lost power in Punjab and also faced crushing defeats in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.

    Sonia Gandhi has not been campaigning actively for some time, apart from Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi has been a star campaigner of Congress.

    Along with this, the brother-sister pair also plays a major role in important decisions of the party.

  • Despite a high-level campaign led by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, the Congress could win only two of the 403 assembly seats in the state.

    The vote share of the Congress also came down to 2.33 per cent and most of its candidates forfeited their deposits.

  • Rahul Gandhi resigned from the post of Congress President after the party's second consecutive defeat in the 2019 general elections.

    Sonia Gandhi again took over the reins of the party as the interim president.

    He too had offered to step down in August 2020 following an open rebellion by a section of party leaders 'G-23' but the CWC urged him to continue.

  • After the crushing defeat of the Congress in these assembly elections, many leaders of the party's 'G23' group also held a meeting on Friday in which the strategy ahead was discussed.

    Kapil Sibal, Anand Sharma and Manish Tewari attended the meeting held at the residence of former Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad.

  • Sources say that the leaders of 'G23' included in the Congress Working Committee may raise the issue of electoral defeat in the CWC meeting and their old demand for necessary changes in the party organization and ensuring accountability.

    Prominent members of the 'G23' group are Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma in the Congress Working Committee.

  • However, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala on Sunday dismissed as "false and mischievous" reports that claimed members of the Gandhi family would resign from all party posts.

    He rejected any major change in the party.

    He said on Twitter that the reports of the alleged resignation are unfair, mischievous and wrong.

  • Surjewala said, "It is inappropriate for a TV channel to air such baseless propaganda stories emanating from fictitious sources at the behest of the ruling BJP." The faces will hang tomorrow.