Friday, June 10 2022
NEW DELHI: Top Congress leaders will deliberate on the way forward to elect the new party leader at a Congress working committee meeting on Friday, sources said.
Members of the CWC, the party’s top decision-making body, are expected to discuss and finalize the schedule for organizational elections and the AICC plenary session.
This follows a report from the Central Election Authority chaired by Madhusudan Mistry making some recommendations on the election for the post of Congress President.
The sources said the virtual CWC meeting will be chaired by party leader Sonia Gandhi, who has asked the leadership to hold organizational polls, including for the post of party chairman.
Sonia Gandhi took over as interim president of Congress after Rahul Gandhi resigned following the Lok Sabha party debacle in May 2019.
There have been demands from a section of Congressional leadership for a full-time active party chairman and an organizational overhaul.
At its previous meeting, the CWC had decided to hold organizational elections, following a storm in the party in August last year following a letter to Sonia Gandhi by a group of 23 leaders, including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Bhupinder Hooda, Prithviraj Chavan, Kapil Sibal, Manish Tewari and Mukul Wasnik raise these questions.
Sonia Gandhi had met with some of these “letter writers” last month and discussed the issues they raised. The meeting convened at his residence here was also attended by Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, among others.
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