Sonia Gandhi calls prolonged CWC to insulate household from change seekers

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has known as an prolonged CWC meet on Saturday, taking no likelihood in opposition to change seekers within the Congress Working Committee, regardless that they’re only a handful. She rejected Ghulam Nabi Azad’s demand that solely full-fledged members be invited to debate the state of the social gathering and management.

The institution has additionally ready a script to evade the demand for an early Congress organisational election and to delay it until subsequent yr by citing upcoming meeting polls and the necessity for a recent membership-drive earlier than giving a recent time period for the Congress chief and staff. The actual concept is to avert a dialogue on organisational and marketing campaign selections taken by Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra. The AICC plans to, as an alternative, focus CWC discourse on farmers’ points and in opposition to the Modi regime in addition to drumming up a present of loyalty for Rahul Gandhi’s return as chief.

In one other growth, Punjab PCC chief Navjyot Singh Sidhu met Rahul Gandhi together with AICC in-charge right here on Friday, a day after the management and Sidhu signalled a compromise method, after Sidhu supplied his resignation a fortnight in the past. The management was nonetheless discussing the way in which ahead on addressing the calls for Sidhu raised, and insisting on, earlier than AICC can formally reject his resignation. On his half, Sidhu yesterday mentioned he accepts the management of the Gandhis however has not but withdrawn/amended the problems and calls for he had raised.