The Congress’s highest decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) met in New Delhi today, the first such meeting after Rahul Gandhi took over the reins of the party earlier this month.
The high-level Congress meeting comes a day after the party’s top leadership was acquitted by a special CBI court in the 2G spectrum “scam”. The meeting also comes days after the party, under the leadership of president Rahul Gandhi, put up an impressive performance in Gujarat Assembly election, where it reduced the BJP to less than 100 seats in the 182-member state Assembly.
Besides Rahul, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are also attending the CWC meeting at the party’s 10, Janpath office in central Delhi.
Rahul Gandhi was elected unopposed as Congress chief on December 11 and assumed the party’s reins on December 16.In the meeting today, Rahul is expected to raise the 2G issue, which the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had used to the hilt while mounting a fierce campaign against the Congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha election.
The Congress, sources said, wants to take the 2G issue to the people for which it is likely to formalise a plan soon. The CWC, the party’s highest decision-making body, is also likely to adopt a resolution to this effect.
Alleged corruption under UPA II was widely believed to have led to the defeat of the Manmohan Singh government. The ramifications of the Congress’s strong performance in the Gujarat Assembly polls for the party in future is also likely to be discussed in the CWC meeting.
In a related development, two-time former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and suave Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor are likely to make it to the CWC, either as permanent or special invitees to the party’s highest decision-making body, according to the buzz in Congress circles in Kerala.
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