New Delhi: The top Congress leadership on Saturday began crucial deliberations on the Lok Sabha election results to chalk out its future strategy at the party's working committee meeting here.
The extended meeting of the party's top decision-making body - Congress Working Committee (CWC) began at Hotel Ashok here.
Senior party leaders and CWC members, along with Congress legislature party leaders from various states and State Congress Committee presidents, will analyze the party's performance and suggest measures to strengthen the organization.
Top Congress leaders, including party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra among others, will participate in the deliberations.
Kharge, who called the meeting, will also host a dinner for all the extended CWC members and party MPs at the hotel.Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting, which will be attended by all the newly elected MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, will be held in the Central Hall of Parliament at 5.30 pm.
In this meeting, party MPs will also elect the president of the new Congress Parliamentary Party. Sonia Gandhi is likely to be re-elected CPP president.
"The 2024 elections are a moral defeat for Narendra Modi and the BJP, while a morale boost for the Indian National Congress and Bharat Janbandhan. The extended Congress Working Committee meeting will be held today at 11 am and the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting will be held at 5.30 pm. ,” Ramesh said in a post on X.Congress has emerged as the second largest party in the Lok Sabha, with its tally increasing from 52 to 99 in the 2019 elections.
This will be the first time since being voted out of power in 2014 that Congress will get the post of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
It failed to get the position in the last 10 years as its tally was less than the required 10 per cent of the total seats in the House in both 2014 and 2019.
A section within the party believes that former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi should take over the post of leader of the party and opposition in the Lok Sabha.
This issue is likely to be discussed in the meeting of CWC and Parliamentary Party.
Rahul Gandhi won both Wayanad and Rae Bareli seats in the elections and he will have to decide within 14 days which seat will remain with him and which seat will remain vacant.He will have to take the decision before the possible swearing-in ceremony next week.
After the elections, Congress has emerged as a strong force in Parliament and the party is hoping to corner the government in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on issues of common people including price rise and unemployment.
The extended meeting of the party's top decision-making body - Congress Working Committee (CWC) began at Hotel Ashok here.
Senior party leaders and CWC members, along with Congress legislature party leaders from various states and State Congress Committee presidents, will analyze the party's performance and suggest measures to strengthen the organization.
Top Congress leaders, including party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra among others, will participate in the deliberations.
Kharge, who called the meeting, will also host a dinner for all the extended CWC members and party MPs at the hotel.Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting, which will be attended by all the newly elected MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, will be held in the Central Hall of Parliament at 5.30 pm.
In this meeting, party MPs will also elect the president of the new Congress Parliamentary Party. Sonia Gandhi is likely to be re-elected CPP president.
"The 2024 elections are a moral defeat for Narendra Modi and the BJP, while a morale boost for the Indian National Congress and Bharat Janbandhan. The extended Congress Working Committee meeting will be held today at 11 am and the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting will be held at 5.30 pm. ,” Ramesh said in a post on X.Congress has emerged as the second largest party in the Lok Sabha, with its tally increasing from 52 to 99 in the 2019 elections.
This will be the first time since being voted out of power in 2014 that Congress will get the post of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
It failed to get the position in the last 10 years as its tally was less than the required 10 per cent of the total seats in the House in both 2014 and 2019.
A section within the party believes that former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi should take over the post of leader of the party and opposition in the Lok Sabha.
This issue is likely to be discussed in the meeting of CWC and Parliamentary Party.
Rahul Gandhi won both Wayanad and Rae Bareli seats in the elections and he will have to decide within 14 days which seat will remain with him and which seat will remain vacant.He will have to take the decision before the possible swearing-in ceremony next week.
After the elections, Congress has emerged as a strong force in Parliament and the party is hoping to corner the government in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on issues of common people including price rise and unemployment.
