Congress plenary tomorrow
Amidst a slew of controversies including alleged 2G spectrum allocation scam, the Congress will hold its two-day plenary session beginning from Sunday. It is expected that the party would take up the issues and work out strategy to deal with the situation.
While the plenary will start on Sunday, the subjects committee of the party comprising the steering committee members will meet on Saturday to finalise the draft resolutions, which will be placed before the meeting. The current session, which 83rd in the history of Congress, is going to be the third such meet since Congress president Sonia Gandhi took over the party in 1998.
The embattled Congress is currently hopping from one controversy after another and as Mrs Gandhi faces the challenge of resurrecting the party and the coalition government from a web of charges, she may take a cue from late Rajiv Gandhi’s speech 25 years ago at the centenary plenary session in Mumbai. In a hard-hitting address on the state of affairs in the party whose workers, he had said, were “handicapped as on their backs rode the brokers of power and influence”. The controversial Radia tapes have brought to the fore lobbying, manipulation and media management in post-liberalised India, with opposition charging and wondering as to who decides the posts in the Union Cabinet.
The AICC meeting held here over a month back had evoked a controversy as neither Mrs Sonia Gandhi nor Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or young leader Rahul had referred to the issue of corruption.
Moreover, the scheduled plenary is also important as it is expected to work out a strategy for the party with 2011 scheduled to have elections to the assemblies of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, Assam and West Bengal. And the following year crucial battle of ballot will be set in Uttar Pradesh and BJP-ruled Gujarat.
Last but not the least, another highlight of the plenary would be showcasing the party standing solidly behind the Prime Minister Manmohan, whose “wise leadership” was profusely appreciated by Mrs Gandhi at the last Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) meeting on the last day of Winter Session.
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