Congress Working Committee
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The Congress Working Committee (CWC) is the
The Working Committee has had different levels of power in the party at different times. In the period prior to
Composition of Congress Working Committee
President
Name | Portrait | Position in government |
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Mallikarjun Kharge |
Members[5]
Permanent Invitees
S.no | Member | Portrait | Position |
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1. | Pratibha Singh | MP Lok Sabha, Mandi | |
2. | Pawan Kumar Bansal | Ex MP, (Chandigarh) | |
3. | Veerappa Moily | Ex MP, (Karnataka) | |
4. | Harish Rawat | Former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
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5. | Mohan Prakash | Ex MLA, Rajasthan | |
6. | Ramesh Chennithala | MLA, Kerala | |
7. | B. K. Hariprasad | MLC, Karnataka | |
8. | Manish Tewari | MP, Punjab
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9. | Tariq Hameed Karra | Ex MP, Jammu & Kashmir | |
10. | Deepender Singh Hooda | MP, Haryana | |
11. | Girish Chodankar | ||
12. | T. Subbarami Reddy | Ex MP, Andhra Pradesh | |
13. | K Raju | ||
14. | Chandrakant Handore | Ex MLA, Maharashtra | |
15. | Meenakshi Natarajan | Ex MP, Madhya Pradesh | |
16. | Phulo Devi Netam | MP, Chhattisgarh | |
17. | Damodar Raja Narasimha | Cabinet Minister, Telangana | |
18. | Sudip Roy Barman | MLA, Tripura |
Special Invitees
Member | party Position |
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G. Sanjeeva Reddy | President, INTUC
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Neeraj Kundan | President, NSUI
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BV Srinivas | President, IYC |
Lalji Desai | Chief Organiser ,Seva Dal |
Gidugu Rudra Raju | Ex President APCC |
Chinta Mohan | Ex-MP |
Sachin Rao | Training Incharge |
Criticism
The Congress has not held internal elections for CWC for nearly 20 years and the last elections were held in 1998.[8] In 2017 Election Commission ordered it to hold internal elections[9] but as of 2020 no elections were held.[10] When Congress was trying to forge an alliance with ideologically opposite Shiv Sena in Maharashtra in 2019, Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam publicly urged Sonia Gandhi to dissolve the CWC, saying "they cannot be trusted anymore."[11] [12] In 2020 a paper by Observer Research Foundation calls a large number of CWC members "unprincipled, opportunists and self-serving individuals for whom self-interest is paramount."[13]
See also
References
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- ^ "Nobody But Rahul, Says Congress Leader Whose Father Ran vs Sonia Gandhi". Archived from the original on 12 August 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Election Commission Tells Congress to Hold Internal Elections by June 30". Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ Pankaj Vohra (8 August 2020). "EC can freeze Congress symbol or initiate action if the party remains leaderless". Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Congress "Defamed", Rahul Gandhi Should Return to Lead: Sanjay Nirupam After Maharashtra Twist". Archived from the original on 6 February 2020.
- ^ "Old Grudge, Unfulfilled Demand: Why Rahul Gandhi Remained Absent from Cong's Meet on Delhi Riots". 26 February 2020. Archived from the original on 26 February 2020.
- ^ "Congress moving towards extinction?". Archived from the original on 14 March 2020.