Congressional working committee meets Sunday to discuss polling debacle in 5 states | India News
New Delhi: After being decimated in the five states that recently went to the polls, the meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s highest decision-making body, will be held on Sunday (March 13) at 4 p.m. at the office of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in Delhi, ANI reported.
The Congress was defeated in four states of Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Goa and Uttarakhand and lost Punjab to the AAP led by Arvind Kejriwal.
The Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting will be held tomorrow at 4 p.m. at the AICC office in Delhi, to discuss the polling debacle in 5 states and the current political situation pic.twitter.com/wWg3rRwu4f
— ANI (@ANI) March 12, 2022
Earlier on Friday, senior Congress party leaders who are part of Group 23, who had questioned the party’s leadership and demanded an organizational overhaul, met at Ghulam Nabi Azad’s residence and discussed the successive defeats of the party in the elections to the Assembly and to the Parliament. According to PTI sources, the leaders discussed the future and revitalization of Congress, which has become even “more marginalized and isolated”. Besides Azad, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, party MPs Anand Sharma, Kapil Sibal, Manish Tewari and Akhilesh Prasad Singh were present at the meeting.
Punjab
The Congress faced a humiliating defeat in the 117-member Punjab Assembly, losing the state to the AAP. Congress heavyweights Charanjit Singh Channi and Navjot Singh Sidhu lost their seats. Congress was reduced to 18 seats with a 22.98% vote share while the AAP staged a historic victory by winning 92 districts and a 42.01% vote share.
Uttar Pradesh
The Congress only managed to win 2 seats in the UP and obtained 2.33% of the votes.
Goa
The Congress, which became the largest party in 2017, won 11 seats with 23.46% of the vote in Goa in 2022.
Uttarakhand
The Congress failed to overthrow the BJP in Uttarakhand, winning 19 seats and 37.91% of the vote.
Manipur
Congress won 5 seats and 16.83% of the vote in the northeastern state.
(With contributions from the agency)
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