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Showdown in CWC; change-seekers seek elected CEC, parliamentary board SECTIONS Share Synopsis A plenary session will not be needed. An elected CPB-CEC arrangement would make the leadership and decision-making collective and democratic and the Congress president will be just first among equals and without right to unilaterally sack elected members or pack top party bodies with handpicked nominees. The current CEC is headed by interim chief Sonia Gandhi and her nominated members, who make the final candidate selections for the Lok Sabha and assembly polls. New Delhi: A virtual meeting of the Congress Working Committee witnessed heated exchanges on Friday after ‘change seekers’ implicitly demanded revival of the all-powerful Congress Parliamentary Board (CPB), by seeking an elected Central Election Committee (CEC) along with an elected CWC and party president. ....
Karti Chidambaram, an MP from Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu, tweeted, These jumbo committees serve no purpose. 32 VP, 57 GS, 104 Secretaries. None will have any authority which means no accountability. The parliamentarian s discordant note follows his father, P Chidambaram s support to dissenters during a meeting with the Congress President Sonia Gandhi recently. He had backed calls for elections at every level and also demanded the reconstitution of the Congress Parliamentary Board. In his tweet critical of the Tamil Nadu Congress revamp, Mr Chidambaram tagged a host of senior leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi. Promoted In Tamil Nadu, which goes to polls in a few months from now, the Congress has traditionally only played a marginal role, mostly aligned with the DMK, a party that is looking to replace the present AIADMK regime, which is itself a part of the BJP-led NDA. ....