Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Aug 24: The Congress Working Committee (CWC), the top decision-making body of the party, will convene virtually on Sunday to ratify the precise calendar of dates for the Congress President election.
The CWC meeting will be presided over Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
“A virtual meeting of the CWC will be held on the 28th August, 2022, at 3:30 PM, to approve the exact schedule of dates for the election of the Congress president. Congress president Smt. Sonia Gandhi will preside over the CWC meeting,” Congress General Secretary in-charge organisation KC Venugopal said in a tweet.
Since the Congress president is travelling for medical appointments, she will virtually attend the conference from abroad. She is accompanied by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the general secretary of the party, and former Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
Several public appeals for Rahul Gandhi to return as party leader have been made by leaders, but the ambiguity and suspense surrounding the party’s presidential issue persist.
After the Congress suffered its second consecutive loss in the 2019 parliamentary elections, Rahul Gandhi resigned as party leader. After an open uprising by a group of leaders known as the G-23, Sonia Gandhi, who took over the reins of the party again as interim President, also promised to resign in August 2020, but the CWC persuaded her to stay in office.
