The meeting heard the party’s Chief Ministers on the Covid situation The Congress Working Committee (CWC), which met here on Monday through video conferencing, has decided to appoint a fact finding committee to evaluate the election results and the reasons for the setbacks the party suffered in four States that went to polls. It was also decided to defer the organisational elections to elect the next Congress president.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Congress general secretary incharge of organisation KC Venugopal said the party will fix responsibility for the debacle based on the report of the fact finding team. He said the Congress president Sonia Gandhi will appoint the members within 48 hours from Monday.
CWC meet begins, reviews electoral setback
May 10, 2021
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These results tell us clearly that we need to put our house in order, says Sonia
The Congress Working Committee (CWC) has started its meeting to evaluate the election results, where the party faced setback in the four States that went to polls. The meeting will also take a final decision on the schedule to elect the next Congress president.
The ongoing meeting also heard the party s Chief Ministers on the Covid situation. The meeting will also hear the party general secretaries Jitender Singh for Assam, Tariq Anwar for Kerala, AICC in-charge for Tamil Nadu & Puducherry Dinesh Gundurao and West Bengal in-charge Jitin Prasada on the electoral outcome. I expect them to brief us very frankly on our performance in their respective states. We want them to tell us why we performed well below expectation. These results tell us clearly that we need to put our house in order, Congress president Sonia