Team News Riveting
Hyderabad, September 16
Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday told the Congress Working Committee (CWC) that the party has to fight unitedly with the opposition INDIA bloc to defeat the BJP.
Addressing the first meeting of the reconstituted top decision-making body of the party in Hyderabad on Saturday, Sonia Gandhi literally sent strong message of unity to the 28-membered opposition bloc. The statement assumed importance because of reports that the bloc, while largely successful in figuring out seat-sharing arrangements in some states, is expected to have a tough time in others, especially West Bengal, Delhi and Punjab.
After the meeting in Mumbai, the parties in the INDIA alliance had also said that they would contest the 2024 Lok Sabha election “together as far as possible”. The inclusion of the phrase in their resolution had raised eyebrows and lent credence to speculation that the parties were also seeing a rocky road ahead when it came to working out the seat-sharing arrangements in some states, NDTV reported.
In his maiden speech to the CWC since he took over as the Congress president last year, Mallikarjun Kharge launched an all-out attack on the BJP and the Centre and said that it has been a “complete failure on all important fronts”. He alleged that the Modi government has not been able to control inflation, unemployment, widening inequality or the deteriorating condition of farmers and labourers.
The Congress President said the whole country is witnessing the tragic events that are still unfolding in Manipur. “The Modi government allowed the fire of Manipur to reach Nuh in Haryana. These incidents tarnish the image of a modern, progressive, and secular India,” he added.
According to the political observers, the CWC meeting was held in Hyderabad to send a message to the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi in Telangana that the Congress party will be making all efforts to win the state in the upcoming Assembly elections.
The committee also deliberated on the preparations for the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and the Lok Sabha polls next year. Shashi Tharoor, Sachin Pilot and Gaurav Gogoi are among the panel’s new members.
The other members of the top decision-making body include Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Union Ministers P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh.
