Organisational Polls, UP Violence To Be Top Agenda At Key Congress Meet
NDTV
The first physical meeting of the Congress' top decision-making body, Congress Working Committee (CWC), since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has been convened after demands from some quarters within the party to discuss important issues, including some defections in the recent past.
Organisational elections, forthcoming assembly polls and the current political situation, including the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, will be on top of the agenda as the top Congress brass gathers here on Saturday for a meeting of the party's working committee.
The first physical meeting of the Congress' top decision-making body, Congress Working Committee (CWC), since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has been convened after demands from some quarters within the party to discuss important issues, including some defections in the recent past.
The meeting also comes amid rumblings within the Congress'' state units such as in Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan where the party is in power.
The G-23 leaders have been demanding the convening of the CWC with Kapil Sibal last month wondering who in the party was taking decisions in the absence of a full-time president and asserting that G23 leaders'' grouping is "not a Jee Huzur 23".
