NEW DELHI: Top Congress leadership will gather here on October 16 to deliberate on the current political situation, including the Lakhimpur violence, and decide on the organisational elections at a meeting of the party’s working committee.
The meeting of the Congress’ top decision-making body has been convened after demands from some quarters 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 Congress Working Committee (CWC) soon.
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 party leadership is also likely to decide on the schedule for electing the new Congress chief.
The party, in its CWC meeting, held on January 22 had decided that the Congress would have an elected president by June 2021, but the same was deferred at the May 10 CWC meet in the wake of the COVID-19 situation.
The latest meeting is being held in the wake of Lakhimpur clashes on October 3 in which eight people lost their lives, including four farmers who were allegedly run over by an SUV belonging to the convoy of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra.
The incident has given enough ammo to the Congress to corner the BJP government and recapture the lost political space. —PTI

Press Trust of India