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The Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Friday decided to elect the new president “at any cost” June this year.
The committee after a three and a half hour meeting authorised incumbent party chief Sonia Gandhi to schedule the internal election after the conclusion of assembly polls in five states.
Addressing a joint press conference, Congress leaders K.C. Venugopal and Randeep Surjewala said elections to the CWC would also be held but it remains to be seen whether it could be scheduled before or after the election to the Congress chief’s post.
“The CWC decided that there will be an elected Congress President by June 2021 at any cost,” AICC general secretary K.C. Venugopal said. He said the little change of schedule depending on the state elections would be decided soon.
“The CWC discussed the schedule of Congress president’s elections in May-end, proposed by its election authority. All CWC members unanimously requested the Congress president that the internal elections should not interfere with the assembly elections,” Venugopal said.
He said the Congress president was requested unanimously to reschedule AICC Plenary Session to the end of June 2021 and the Congress chief’s election would be concluded by June 2021.
“We will conduct elections as per the Constitution of the party. We need a change of schedule due to assembly polls as counting would be underway in May,” he said.
The CWC passed three resolutions demanding a repeal of the three agriculture laws, a time-bound JPC probe into the alleged violations of national security and Official Secrets Act and another to ensure that the government ensures free time-bound Covid-19 vaccination for the poor and oppressed sections.
