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CWC Meeting Live Updates: First Time Look at In-Person Meet Post Covid; Decision on election of new chief, state elections, violence over Lakhimpur card

October 16, 2021
Bharat Times English News

Congress’s top decision-making body, the CWC, has its first physical meeting since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic (File Photo/Reuters)

CWC Meet Live Updates: This is the first physical meeting of the Congress’s apex decision-making body, the CWC, since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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CWC Meeting Live Updates: An important meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s highest decision-making body, will be held at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in New Delhi today. At the meeting, the CWC is expected to go ahead with an organizational election for a full-time chief rather than an interim election for the post of president. CWC members, permanent invitees and special invitees of the committee will attend the meeting along with the chief ministers of Congress-ruled states. Assembly elections to be held in five states including Uttar Pradesh and Punjab next year, organizational elections, the current political situation, inflation, farmers’ protest and the economic condition of the country are likely to be on the agenda.

The first physical meeting of the Congress’s top decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee (CWC), has been convened since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic to discuss key issues from some quarters within the party, including some defections. recent past. The meeting is also taking place amid uproar in state units of the Congress such as Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan where the party is in power. G-23 leaders had been demanding the holding of the CWC with Kapil Sibal last month, wondering who in the party was taking decisions in the absence of a full-time president, claiming that the G23 group of leaders was “G Huzoor”. 23 is not”. Former Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad had also written a letter to the Congress President asking him to convene a CWC meeting soon.

The CWC meeting will also discuss some dissent notes rising within the party over defection and the party’s poor electoral fortunes. Congress Chief Ministers Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan), Bhupesh Baghel (Chhattisgarh) and Charanjit Channi (Punjab) are expected to be present in the meeting. Sonia Gandhi, who was named interim chief following the resignation of son Rahul Gandhi over the 2019 election defeat, is expected to continue the entire process of fresh membership and a full-fledged election from the district to the national level. .

Here are the live updates:

  • CWC members, permanent invitees and special invitees of the committee will attend the meeting along with the chief ministers of Congress-ruled states.
  • The latest meeting is taking place in the wake of the Lakhimpur Kheri clashes on October 3, in which eight people, including four farmers, were allegedly crushed by an SUV belonging to Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra’s convoy. .
  • Among other things, the CWC meeting will also discuss some dissent notes rising within the party over defection and the party’s poor electoral fortunes. Congress Chief Ministers Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan), Bhupesh Baghel (Chhattisgarh) and Charanjit Channi (Punjab) are expected to be present in the meeting.
  • The meeting is taking place amid an uproar in state units of the Congress like Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, where the party is in power. G-23 leaders had been demanding the holding of the CWC with Kapil Sibal last month, wondering who in the party was taking decisions in the absence of a full-time president, claiming that the G23 group of leaders was “G Huzoor”. 23 is not”. .
  • The schedule for the internal elections of the Congress is expected to be held simultaneously with the election of the party president, CWC and Central Election Committee.
  • Notably, this meeting will be the first time the CWC will be convened after the Covid outbreak. In the last meeting of the CWC held on 22 January, the organizational elections were postponed until the situation in Kovid improved.
  • The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet today under the chairmanship of party president Sonia Gandhi, 16 days after two leaders of the “G-23 group” demanded an immediate meeting of the party’s higher decision-making body to discuss the current situation. challenges.

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