New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet tomorrow to take stock of the party’s worst Lok Sabha performance and chart the road ahead amid suggestions that it should fortify ideological moorings of party workers in the wake of the BJP’s rise.
There is also speculation that party president Sonia Gandhi (pictured) and vice president Rahul Gandhi may offer to resign at the meeting but some party leaders denied such a possibility.
The CWC, the party’s highest decision-making body, will discuss the reasons for the Congress’ debacle where it could not even reach 50-seat mark, scored zero in several states and failed to reach double digits in any.
“The CWC will discuss what went wrong. What were the reasons for securing less number of seats? We will try course correction and what is the way ahead,” said party general secretary Shakeel
Ahmed.
He said Congress was over an 120-year-old party which had seen many ups and downs and will stage a comeback. The CWC meeting will introspect and seek to identify the shortcomings, he said. “(It will discuss) measures we should take to come back forcefully,” Ahmed said.
Asked if Gandhis would offer to resign, he said any such offer will be rejected. “I don’t want to comment on speculative news but hypothetically what you are asking will be rejected outrightly,” Ahmed said. Both had on Friday taken responsibility for the party’s worst drubbing in a national election.
Asked if general secretaries, who were in charge of states which had done badly will resign, Ahmed said he could not predict the course of discussions.
“I do not want to speculate what will happen in CWC,” he said, adding that the party had said even before results that “achievements will be collective and shortcomings will be collective”.
Another party leader, who did not want to be named, said that the decision to resign or not depends on general secretaries individually.
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