Udaipur
The Congress leadership on Sunday started the final round of deliberations to usher organisational reforms and articulate the party’s position on key issues and challenges confronting it and the country at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) here. After the two-day long deliberations on organisational, political, economic, agricultural, social justice and youth-related issues, the dedicated panels formed for the purpose submitted their reports to the Congress President which will be given to the CWC for their final approval. Tricky issues relating to ideology, economic policy and social engineering have been debated in the Chintan Shivir panels and it remains to be seen what shape these issues take in the ‘Nav Sankalp’ resolution to be adopted later in the day. Top Congress leaders including party chief Sonia Gandhi, former president Rahul Gandhi and senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Ghulam Nabi Azad, P Chidambaram, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Ambika Soni and others attended the CWC meeting here, while giving final shape to organisational reforms and party’s stand on key issues. The leaders have held several rounds of deliberations during the past two days in the six panels formed by the Congress president. Convener of these panels submitted their reports to Sonia Gandhi paving the way for a structured resolution. The resolution will be adopted at the CWC and the Congress will adopt the ‘Nav Sankalp’ declaration be the outcome of the three-day brainstorming conclave where over 450 Congress leaders from across participated. The party will adopt the ‘Nav Sankalp’ declaration after three days of brainstorming at the Chintan Shivir here. The Congress is holding the three-day conclave in Udaipur in the backdrop of a string of electoral defeats and dissent in the party for the past many years.
