After witnessing defeat in assembly elections in all five states, Congress has decided to convene a meeting today, March 14, to chalk out the party’s future strategy. In addition, the party’s strategy group for Parliament will also meet on Sunday to plan the second half. budget sessionStarting tomorrow (14 March).
Congress President Sonia Gandhi will reportedly chair a meeting of the party’s top decision-making body at its headquarters here on Sunday at 4 pm.
The Congress lost Punjab to the AAP and could not snatch any of the four other states – Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur – from the BJP.
Whereas Sonia Gandhi Not campaigning actively for some time now, Rahul Gandhi has been the star campaigner of Congress apart from Priyanka Gandhi, with the brother-sister duo also playing a major role in important decisions of the party.
Despite a high-profile campaign led by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, AICC general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh, the Congress managed to win only two of the 403 assembly seats.
Rahul Gandhi had resigned as Congress President after the party suffered a second consecutive defeat in the general elections in 2019. Sonia Gandhi who took over the reins of the party again as interim president had also offered to step down in August 2020 following an open rebellion by a section. The number of leaders, called G-23, but was urged by the Congress Working Committee (CWC) to continue.
In today’s meeting, the G-23 leaders, who have questioned the leadership and pressed for changes in the organisation, are likely to raise the issue again.
G-23 leaders had suggested corrective measures after the last round of assembly elections, when the Congress lost Puducherry and failed to make a mark in Kerala, Assam and West Bengal, but there was little movement on that front. .
These leaders had met on Friday evening at the residence of senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad to chalk out their strategy ahead of the crucial CWC meeting.
Meanwhile, party spokesperson Randeep Surjewala has dismissed “false and mischievous” reports claiming that members of the Gandhi family will resign from all party posts, thus ruling out any major tectonic changes in the party. done.
He said on Twitter that the reports of the alleged resignation are unfair, mischievous and wrong.
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