AICC meet on CWC election to be short
The current mood in the Congress is against holding an election for the Congress Working Committee.
The late P.V. Narasimha Rao and Sitaram Kesri had tried to inculcate democratic spirit in the party by allowing elections for the CWC. But both of them got unceremoniously removed from the top post by those who got elected, recalled Congress managers.
They asked if the PCC presidents are “elected” without a “contest” then what is wrong in constituting the CWC through “nominations”. The AICC meeting, scheduled here on Tuesday, the first after Mrs Sonia Gandhi’s re-election for a fourth term, is likely to be a short affair and would only have a resolution on the “current situation”. Talk in Congress circles is that the word is already out for the faithful that they should make a demand for nomination of the entire CWC. Just two days before the AICC meeting, no one is talking of a contest and there is no enthusiasm either for becoming the candidate.
Party leaders say that several loyalists would utilise the occasion to show their solidarity with Mrs Gandhi by pressing for a one-line resolution authorising her to nominate the CWC and then in no time it would be passed.
The official line on the CWC polls is that it was for the 1,000-odd AICC members to decide whether to have a contest or else authorise Mrs Gandhi to nominate the entire 25-member CWC.
The AICC members constitute the electoral college for the CWC polls. Of the entire CWC, there is a provision for election of 12 and nomination of 11. The Congress president, as also the parliamentary party leader of the party, are always members of the CWC with the party chief heading the key body. The fact is that nominations, rather than election, is the order of the day in the Congress. Mrs Gandhi has renominated a dozen-odd PCC presidents earlier this week.
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