Future Strategy On The Cards As Sonia Gandhi Chairs Cong Meet, Prashant Kishor Also Present

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Ambika Soni, Digvijaya Singh, Mallikarjun Kharge, KC Venugopal and Ajay Maken are among those attending the meeting, ANI reported.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and poll strategist Prashant Kishor (Getty Images)

New Delhi: With the grand old party suffering consecutive electoral defeats, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is holding parleys with her party leaders at her official 10, Janpath residence in the national capital.

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Ambika Soni, Digvijaya Singh, Mallikarjun Kharge, KC Venugopal and Ajay Maken are among those attending the meeting.

Besides, poll strategist Prashant Kishor is also present at the Congress president’s residence amid renewed buzz about joining the grand old party.

The meeting assumes significance as the Congress is mulling the reasons for the debacle faced in the five state assembly polls held last month.

In a bid to improve the performance in the upcoming state elections, the grand old party had earlier decided to call a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting ahead of the 'Chintan Shivir' to chalk out the party's future strategy.

As decided in the last CWC meeting, the party will call a 'Chintan Shivir' to formulate a strategy for the course correction to reverse the trend of electoral defeats after the party's abysmal performance in the recently held assembly polls in five states.

The party, which is now in power in only two states of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and is part of the ruling coalition in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, is gearing up for the assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh at the end of this year.

The party had called the CWC meeting earlier on March 13 after the poll debacle in the five states.

It was decided in the meet that a 'Chintan Shivir' would be held to assess the defeat and to prepare the future road map for the party.