Congress Working Committee meeting on October 16

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 9

Top Congress leadership will gather on October 16 to deliberate on the current political situation and decide on the organisational elections at a meeting of the party’s working committee -- the CWC.

AICC general secretary K C Venugopal tweeted, “A meeting of the Congress Working Committee will be held on Saturday, the 16th October, 2021 at 10 am at AICC Office, 24, Akbar Road, New Delhi to discuss current political situation, forthcoming assembly elections and organisational elections.”

The meeting has been convened after demands from a section within the party to discuss important issues, including some defections in the recent past. Former leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad had also written to the Congress president to convene a meeting of the CWC soon.

Sources say the highest executive body of the party is expected to focus on farmers issue and may address some of the questions related to the political turmoil within party units, including the Punjab unit and concerns raised by the “G-23” leaders.

Party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had visited the kin of farmers who died after being allegedly mowed down by a car belonging to Union minister of state for home Ajay Kumar Mishra Teni in poll-bound UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri district.

The meeting is expected to be held in person. Amid Covid-19 pandemic, CWCs were held virtually.

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