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New Delhi. The Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting will be held today in the backdrop of demands from leaders of the ‘G23’ group of Congress for dialogue within the party and several leaders leaving the party in recent months, including the party president. But some decision is likely to be made.
Sources say that in this meeting the assembly elections to be held in five states after a few months, the current political situation as well as the incident of Lakhimpur Kheri, farmers’ agitation, unemployment, inflation and economic situation can be discussed and some resolutions also passed. can be done. Recently, senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal had demanded to convene a meeting of the CWC. Azad had written a letter to Sonia Gandhi urging her to convene an immediate meeting of the Congress Working Committee to discuss matters related to the party.
Sibal had also raised questions on the party leadership in the midst of the turmoil in the party’s Punjab unit and said that a meeting of the Congress Working Committee should be called to discuss the situation and organizational elections should be held. The CWC meeting is going to take place at a time when Sushmita Dev, Jitin Prasada, Luizinho Faleiro and several other leaders have left the Congress and joined other parties in the last few months.
The Congress Working Committee meeting is also important in the sense that the election of the party president is pending for a long time. A few months ago, due to the Corona epidemic, the election of the Speaker was postponed, which was earlier proposed in the month of June.
Sources say that in this meeting of the CWC, any date or framework can be finalized regarding the election of Congress President. Congress sources also said that in this meeting, the preparations for the assembly elections to be held in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur will also be discussed. Elections are to be held in these states early next year.
