new Delhi: The Congress Working Committee, the top policy-making body of the Congress, discussed the reasons for the crushing defeat in the recent assembly elections here on Sunday and the strategy ahead. The CWC meeting, the top policy-making body of the Congress, chaired by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, was held at the party headquarters.
Apart from Sonia Gandhi, former party president Rahul Gandhi, general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Mallikarjun Kharge, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and many other leaders attended the meeting. A day before the crucial meeting, a section of the media had reported that the Gandhi family may offer to resign from party posts, although the Congress officially denied the news, terming it as “false and mischievous”. .
Congress Working Committee meeting begins. The meeting is being chaired by the party’s interim president Sonia Gandhi pic.twitter.com/czj37hmjKX
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Before the meeting, Gehlot, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president DK Shivakumar and several other leaders demanded that Rahul Gandhi be made the party president again. Senior Congress leader Gehlot said that in today’s time, Rahul Gandhi is the only leader of the country who is facing Prime Minister Narendra Modi with full strength. Shivakumar tweeted, “Like I said earlier, Rahul Gandhi should immediately take the responsibility of full time president. This is the wish of crores of party workers like me.”
During the CWC meeting, many party leaders and workers gathered near the party headquarters and raised slogans in support of Rahul Gandhi and demanded that he be handed over the reins of the party once again. The crucial meeting comes at a time when the Congress lost power in Punjab and also faced humiliating defeats in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
Sonia Gandhi has not been campaigning actively for some time now, apart from Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi has been the star campaigner of Congress. Also, the brother-sister duo plays a major role in important decisions of the party.
After the crushing defeat of the Congress in these assembly elections, several leaders of the party’s ‘G23’ group 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.