A meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) has begun to discuss the reasons for the debacle in the recent assembly elections and decide the future course of action. The meeting, presided over by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, has started at the party headquarters. In this meeting, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, besides senior leaders of the party are present.
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 and termed it as “wrong and mischievous”. . The CWC meeting is being held 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 humiliating 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. Sources say that the G-23 leaders, who are part of 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, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma, are part of the Congress Working Committee.