CWC to meet tomorrow, may discuss internal poll
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Organisational revamp has been a key demand of the group of 23 dissenters
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Organisational revamp has been a key demand of the group of 23 dissenters
The Congress Working Committee will meet on Friday to firm up the dates of the organisational elections, discuss the farmers’ agitation and the strategy for the Parliament session that gets under way on January 29.
The party’s highest decision-making body is likely to meet virtually, said a source on Wednesday.
Fixing the schedule for the internal polls including the president’s post and the CWC is likely to top the agenda as organisational revamp has been a key demand of the group of 23 dissenters.
CM’s Bengaluru development plans yet to take off
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The Chief Minister, despite recent moves at image correction, continues to be seen as too preoccupied to focus on the State capital
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The Chief Minister, despite recent moves at image correction, continues to be seen as too preoccupied to focus on the State capital
Besides complaints over funding, one of the biggest grouses Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa had to address during the recent meeting with party MLAs was of some Bengaluru constituencies receiving “step-motherly treatment” and they not being consulted on various issues. This was only bringing to the fore a long-held complaint against the Chief Minister – that he is too preoccupied to focus on the city despite holding the portfolio of Bengaluru Development.
Rasheed Kidwai
Senior journalist and author
The internal tussle in the Congress is turning procedural and legal. The grand old party’s Central Election Authority (CEA) has prepared a list of AICC delegates and sought time from party’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi. Sonia is expected to summon the Congress Working Committee (CWC) to approve and announce a party poll schedule.
According to Madhusudan Devram Mistry, who heads the CEA, the new president will be elected by 1,000-odd AICC delegates and not by the traditional electoral college consisting of Pradesh Congress Committee delegates (numbering around 13,000) spread all over the country. Article XVIII (h) of the Congress constitution stipulates election of a ‘regular president’ by the AICC if the president resigns.
Congress MLAs oppose BBMP Bill
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Two Congress MLAs, who were part of the Joint Legislature Committee constituted to review the draft BBMP Bill, 2020, have expressed their objection to the Bill passed by the Assembly.
Byatarayanapura MLA Krishna Byre Gowda and Gandhinagar MLA Dinesh Gundu Rao submitted a letter stating their objections to chairperson of the Joint Legislative Committee S. Raghu.
They pointed to the need for a more thorough Act for Bengaluru’s overall development. They stated that this was because Bengaluru, a global city vital to not just Karnataka, but the country, lacked a governance system that meets its current and future needs.