Congress president Sonia Gandhi has convened a meeting of party general secretaries and State in-charges on Saturday to discuss organisational elections, the party's membership drive and the current political situation besides planning agitational programmes. Congress general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal will chair the meeting at the AICC party headquarters and all general secretaries and state in-charges states have been asked to attend.
Sonia Gandhi, who is likely to attend the meeting, will review the progress of membership drive so far as well as the party's future agitational programmes. The meeting comes in the wake of the party's massive loss in the recent assembly elections in five states. "A meeting of AICC general secretaries/ in-charges is being scheduled to be held on March 26, 2022 at at AICC Office New Delhi. The agenda for the meeting is special membership drive and organisational elections, besides planning agitational programmes," a note by Venugopal said.
It also comes in the backdrop of Sonia Gandhi meeting some of the leaders of the G-23 grouping, which has been critical of the party leadership and have been demanding an organisational overhaul for a long time.
Sonia Gandhi has so far held consultations and deliberations with some of the G23 leaders including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Manish Tewari and Vivek Tankha.
Ever since the poll results were announced on March 10, several party leaders, other than the G23, have been expressing their concerns for the fate of the grand old party and what has to be done for revival and issues were taken just two days later at the Sonia chaired Congress Working Committee meeting during which she offered to resign from the post. The party in its CWC had already scheduled September 2022 for the election of a new party president the process of which will begin in June towards complete organizational overhaul.
AICC sources said after Saturday’s meeting another round of CWC will be scheduled in a weeks time which will be followed by a Chintan Shivir either in Jaipur in Rajasthan or Raipur in Chhattisgarh, the only two State where Congress is in power on its own.