CWC Meeting Raipur: …then Rahul Gandhi will become a life member of CWC? Know what important decision Congress will take in the 85th meeting

Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh said in the press conference, after we held a meeting with all the leaders, we are going to make this amendment in the party constitution.

CWC Meeting In Raipur: There is a gathering of veteran Congress leaders in Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh. The reason is the strategic discussion for the policies of the party after the Chintan Shivir in Udaipur. Many important decisions regarding 2024 will be taken in this meeting, along with the constitution of CWC can also be amended.

If sources are to be believed, after the passage of this amendment, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, his mother Sonia Gandhi and former PM Manmohan Singh will become members of the CWC for life. In this regard, the Congress had said in a press conference on Friday (February 24), that it will amend its constitution to give proper representation to SC, ST, OBC, minorities, women and people below 50 years of age in the Congress Working Committee. .

‘This amendment is the product of Udaipur Chintan Shivir’

If Congress leaders are to be believed, this amendment in the party constitution is the product of the ‘Chintan Shivir’ held in Udaipur in May last year. In one of the proposals made in this camp, the party will make these provisions by amending 26 articles and 32 rules. If this proposed amendment is passed in the plenary session, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former party chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi will become life members of the CWC.

What is the schedule of the party?

Party president Mallikarjun Kharge and former president Sonia Gandhi will address on Monday, the second day of the Congress convention, and they will discuss three proposals. On this day politics, economic and international affairs will be discussed.

The three-day session of the Congress began on Thursday. On the first day, the party’s steering committee had unanimously decided that the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s top policy-making body, would not elect members, rather party president Mallikarjun Kharge would be authorized to nominate members.

What did party general secretary Jairam Ramesh say?

Congress General Secretary said that we have discussed this issue for 2-1/2 hours by sitting with all the leaders. Tomorrow and day after tomorrow we are going to amend 16 articles and 32 rules in the constitution of our party. Ramesh said that keeping these two factors in mind, the consensus view of the Steering Committee was that it was time to give the Congress President the right to nominate members to the Congress Working Committee.

However, sources said that Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Digvijaya Singh and Ajay Maken pitched for the CWC polls but eventually aligned with the majority view. Sources said the G-23 members and their supporters in the group spoke in favor of the election.

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