Published On : Sun, Jul 28th, 2019

CWC likely to pick chief after Budget session

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Congress Working Committee the highest decision-making body of Congress is likely to meet next week to decide on the new working president of the party, sources said on Sunday.

The party is expected to convene a meeting of the CWC to decide on the issue after Parliament’s ongoing Budget Session gets over, said sources.

Rahul Gandhi, who has resigned as Congress president taking moral responsibility for his party’s humiliating defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, remains adamant on his decision despite repeated requests from top party leaders and refuses to withdraw his resignation.

Meanwhile, his sister and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has also refrained from taking any decision in this regard.

A senior Congress leader was quoted as saying on the condition of anonymity by IANS that the CWC will meet after the conclusion of the Budget Session to decide on the new Working President.

According to the Congress leader, the CWC meeting was supposed to take place in the first week of August, but since the Budget Session has been extended by a week, it will now be held after that.

Interestingly, Rahul Gandhi will attend the upcoming CWC meeting, but he will not participate in electing his successor.

The party leader further said that even Rahul Gandhi’s sister Priyanka Gandhi will not participate in electing the new Working President of the party.

The Gandhi scion offered to quit from his post during the CWC meeting on May 25, just two days after the 2019 Lok Sabha election results were declared.