The Congress Working Committee (CWC), the top policy-making body of the Congress, discussed the reasons for the party’s debacle in the recent assembly elections and the future course of action here on Sunday. Sonia Gandhi has offered to resign in the CWC meeting. In this meeting, the interim president of Congress party Sonia Gandhi said in her address that if the party feels then all three of us are ready to resign.
Sonia Gandhi was here referring to Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi besides herself. He said that all three of us are ready to resign. Confirming this, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that in the meeting, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi said that she is ready to give up her post in the party along with her family members Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, but we have decided to give it up. Rejected.
The meeting of the CWC, the top policy-making body of the Congress, chaired by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, lasted for over four hours at the party headquarters. Apart from Sonia Gandhi, former party president Rahul Gandhi, general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, senior leader Mallikarjun Kharge, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and many other leaders attended the meeting.
G23 group leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma and Mukul Wasnik also participated in this. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not attend the meeting. Senior leader AK Antony could not attend the meeting due to being infected with COVID 19.
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”. . But now, quoting sources, it is being said that the interim president of the party has offered to resign.
Demand to make Rahul the president
Let us inform that before this meeting, Gehlot, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President DK Shivakumar and many other leaders demanded Rahul Gandhi to 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 fighting Prime Minister Narendra Modi with full strength.
Shivakumar tweeted, “As I have 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 to hand him over the reins of the party once again. demanded.
churning over defeat
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 future strategy 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.