Political News: CWC Meeting LIVE Updates: Eyes on First In-Person Meet Post Covid; Decision on Polls for New Chief, State Elections, Lakhimpur Violence on Cards

The CWC meeting will also discuss certain dissenting notes rising within the party over the spate of defections and the party’s poor electoral fortunes. Congress chief ministers Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan), Bhupesh Baghel (Chhattisgarh) and Charanjit Channi (Punjab) are expected to be present at the meeting. Sonia Gandhi, who was named interim chief following the resignation of son Rahul Gandhi over the 2019 election debacle, is expected to continue till the entire process of fresh memberships and a full-fledged election takes place from the district to the national level, the said.

Here are the Live Updates:

• The meeting would be attended by the CWC members, permanent invitees, and special invitees of the committee along with the chief ministers of the Congress-ruled states.

• The latest meeting is being held in the wake of the Lakhimpur Kheri 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.

• Among Other things, The CWC meeting will also discuss certain dissenting notes rising within the party over the spate of defections and the party’s poor electoral fortunes. Congress chief ministers Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan), Bhupesh Baghel (Chhattisgarh) and Charanjit Channi (Punjab) are expected to be present at the meeting.

• The meeting 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″.

• The schedule of the Congress’ internal elections, along with the poll to the post of the party president, CWC, and central election committee, is expected to be taken up.

• Notably, this meeting will be the first time the CWC will be convened since the outbreak of Covid. The last meeting of the CWC, held on January 22, had postponed the organisational elections until the Covid situation improved.

• The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet today under the chairmanship of party president Sonia Gandhi, 16 days after two leaders of the “G-23 group” demanded an urgent gathering of the higher decision-making body of the party to discuss the current challenges.

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