Rahul constitutes CWC, some senior leaders kept out

July 17, 2018 21:20

Congress president Rahul Gandhi today constituted the Congress Working Committee, the party's highest decision-making body, with a blend of young and old leaders and convened its first meeting on July 22.

The new Congress Working Committee includes 23 members, 19 permanent invitees and nine special invitees, highly-placed sources told PTI.

Senior leaders like Digvijay Singh, Kamal Nath, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Mohan Prakash and C P Joshi in addition to Janardan Dwivedi have been dropped from the new Congress Working Committee, ANI said.

Independent in-charges appointed for various states will be among the permanent invitees to the working committee as ex-officio members, while the heads of five frontal organisations of the party -- Indian National Trade Union Congress, Sewa Dal, Youth Congress, Mahila Congress and National Students' Union of India -- will be part of the special invitees.

This the first CWC formed by the Congress chief after assuming charge of the party.

The July 22 meeting will be of an 'extended working committee' as Gandhi has also invited all state unit presidents and Congress Legislative Party leaders from states.

The committee was dissolved prior to the election of the Congress president and the earlier panel was transformed into a steering committee till the party's plenary session that concluded in March.

The CWC, which acts as an advisory panel on all key decisions of the party, was not in place since the plenary session in March. -- PTI, ANI

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