Congress to chalk out technique for upcoming polls at plenary session

By PTI

RAIPUR: Laying out a transparent roadmap for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and forging ballot tie-ups with like-minded events to tackle the BJP would be the centre of dialogue on the three-day Congress plenary session beginning right here Friday.

The Congress high brass will probably be in attendance on the eighty fifth plenary session that can primarily endorse the presidentship of Mallikarjun Kharge and can pave the best way for the brand new working committee led by him.

The session, which comes within the backdrop of the Bharat Jodo Yatra that has been touted as a hit by the celebration, will probably be attended by round 15,000 delegates.

On the primary day of the three-day session, the Steering Committee, which is taking part in the function of the Working Committee (the earlier one was dissolved till a brand new CWC is fashioned), will even resolve on whether or not there will probably be elections to the highest decision-making physique or not.

Sources mentioned whereas a bit inside the celebration, particularly the youthful lot, desires elections to the CWC, elders within the grand previous celebration need nomination as an alternative to keep away from dissidence inside and allow cohesion within the high physique because the celebration heads into a tricky election cycle forward.

Assembly polls will probably be held in 9 states this yr, together with Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan the place the Congress guidelines, and Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka the place the celebration is the principal opposition.

Winning just a few of the foremost states this yr could be the important thing to Congress revival on the Centre forward of the Lok Sabha elections.

The celebration presently guidelines three states by itself – Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.

The celebration seeks to maintain bitterness at bay, with most seniors of the assumption that consensus is the very best type of election.

The CWC has 25 members, together with 12 elected members and 11 nominated ones, moreover the Congress president and the chief of the celebration in Parliament, as per the celebration’s structure.

The final time elections have been held for the CWC was in Kolkata in 1997 underneath Sitaram Kesri, additionally attended by Sonia Gandhi.

At the plenary, the celebration will even give course to the rank and file to organize for the state ballot cycle forward in Karnataka, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram.

Nagaland and Meghalaya will witness polls on February 27. Tripura elections have already concluded.

As a part of ballot preparations, the celebration would additionally must work out options to finish factionalism within the state models, together with these in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Telangana.

Seeking to hold on the momentum gained by the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, the celebration can also formulate a plan to launch one other yatra from East to West overlaying the northeastern states ranging from Arunachal Pradesh to Gujarat.

The Congress has fashioned a number of committees to work out on points to be deliberated in the course of the session and to organise the conclave.

The plenary comes at a time when the Congress faces an unprecedented problem to its electoral may and even to its primacy within the opposition block.

While the Congress hopes to sew an anti-BJP entrance for 2024 polls having mentioned that it alone has the ethical and the organisational energy to guide it, clouds of disunity hover throughout.

The TMC, BRS and AAP seem reluctant to simply accept the Congress stewardship and BRS chief Okay Chandrashekhar Rao has been holding his personal parleys to rein within the BJP.

The TMC had on Wednesday attacked former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for saying that the ruling celebration of Bengal was working to assist the BJP.

“Rahul Gandhi’s remarks are pretty rich, especially coming from a party that has lost 40 out of the last 45 Assembly elections in India,” the TMC taunted the Congress simply forward of the AICC plenary.

In Bihar too Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has referred to as a gathering of Grand alliance allies on February 25 to coincide with the plenary in indicators which have disturbed the Congress, which desires to unseat the BJP.

The plenary, leaders hope, will supply some readability for the longer term.

RAIPUR: Laying out a transparent roadmap for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and forging ballot tie-ups with like-minded events to tackle the BJP would be the centre of dialogue on the three-day Congress plenary session beginning right here Friday.

The Congress high brass will probably be in attendance on the eighty fifth plenary session that can primarily endorse the presidentship of Mallikarjun Kharge and can pave the best way for the brand new working committee led by him.

The session, which comes within the backdrop of the Bharat Jodo Yatra that has been touted as a hit by the celebration, will probably be attended by round 15,000 delegates.

On the primary day of the three-day session, the Steering Committee, which is taking part in the function of the Working Committee (the earlier one was dissolved till a brand new CWC is fashioned), will even resolve on whether or not there will probably be elections to the highest decision-making physique or not.

Sources mentioned whereas a bit inside the celebration, particularly the youthful lot, desires elections to the CWC, elders within the grand previous celebration need nomination as an alternative to keep away from dissidence inside and allow cohesion within the high physique because the celebration heads into a tricky election cycle forward.

Assembly polls will probably be held in 9 states this yr, together with Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan the place the Congress guidelines, and Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka the place the celebration is the principal opposition.

Winning just a few of the foremost states this yr could be the important thing to Congress revival on the Centre forward of the Lok Sabha elections.

The celebration presently guidelines three states by itself – Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.

The celebration seeks to maintain bitterness at bay, with most seniors of the assumption that consensus is the very best type of election.

The CWC has 25 members, together with 12 elected members and 11 nominated ones, moreover the Congress president and the chief of the celebration in Parliament, as per the celebration’s structure.

The final time elections have been held for the CWC was in Kolkata in 1997 underneath Sitaram Kesri, additionally attended by Sonia Gandhi.

At the plenary, the celebration will even give course to the rank and file to organize for the state ballot cycle forward in Karnataka, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram.

Nagaland and Meghalaya will witness polls on February 27. Tripura elections have already concluded.

As a part of ballot preparations, the celebration would additionally must work out options to finish factionalism within the state models, together with these in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Telangana.

Seeking to hold on the momentum gained by the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, the celebration can also formulate a plan to launch one other yatra from East to West overlaying the northeastern states ranging from Arunachal Pradesh to Gujarat.

The Congress has fashioned a number of committees to work out on points to be deliberated in the course of the session and to organise the conclave.

The plenary comes at a time when the Congress faces an unprecedented problem to its electoral may and even to its primacy within the opposition block.

While the Congress hopes to sew an anti-BJP entrance for 2024 polls having mentioned that it alone has the ethical and the organisational energy to guide it, clouds of disunity hover throughout.

The TMC, BRS and AAP seem reluctant to simply accept the Congress stewardship and BRS chief Okay Chandrashekhar Rao has been holding his personal parleys to rein within the BJP.

The TMC had on Wednesday attacked former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for saying that the ruling celebration of Bengal was working to assist the BJP.

“Rahul Gandhi’s remarks are pretty rich, especially coming from a party that has lost 40 out of the last 45 Assembly elections in India,” the TMC taunted the Congress simply forward of the AICC plenary.

In Bihar too Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has referred to as a gathering of Grand alliance allies on February 25 to coincide with the plenary in indicators which have disturbed the Congress, which desires to unseat the BJP.

The plenary, leaders hope, will supply some readability for the longer term.