Congress Chief Kharge Calls CWC Meet On Dec 21 To Discuss 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Strategy

The Congress Working Committee will be meeting for the first time after the party's poor election performance in three Hindi heartland states.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with party leaders Rahul Gandhi and KC Venugopal during a meeting at AICC headquarters in Delhi.

Source : PTI

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has called a meeting of the party's working committee on December 21 to discuss the current political situation in the country, reported news agency ANI. The Congress Working Committee is likely to take up discussions on the recent poll rout, parliament breach and other issues. The meeting will be held on Thursday, a day before the last working day of parliament's winter session.

News agency PTI reported citing sources that the main agenda of the meeting would be to prepare a strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. With nearly four months remaining for the mega elections, the Congress party is aiming to regain its lost grip. In the recently held assembly elections in five states, the Congress lost power in Rajasthan and Chhatisgarh to the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and failed to give a fight in Madhya Pradesh. The party only managed to form a government in Telangana by ousting KCR's Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS).

In Mizoram, the BJP won two seats while the Congress won only one.

Also, the meeting will take place two days after the INDIA bloc meeting on December 19 and seat sharing and campaign are likely to be top matters to be discussed, PTI reported citing sources. They said that a yatra by Rahul Gandhi 

The meeting is also likely to discuss the possibility of a yatra (this time east-to-west mode) that Rahul Gandhi could undertake before the 2024 polls with unemployment and price rise as its core ideas.

On December 19, the leaders of I.N.D.I.A bloc will meet, for the first time after the election results were announced on De 3 and 4. The meet is likely to focus on the agenda for the future, internal rifts and seat sharing. The parties intend to move forward with the unity theme -- "Main Nahin, Hum" (We, Not Me) -- to counter PM Narendra Modi, PTI quoted a senior leader of the Congress as saying.