Rahul, Sonia to attend Cong Kolkata meet
The Congress has decided to hold a meeting of party workers in Kolkata in September this year in a bid to show off its strength to ally Trinamul Congress and rival Left Front. This exercise is being viewed as part of a big electoral battle to be fought in the coming months.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and the party’s charismatic leader, Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi, will attend the meeting being held on the occasion of the Congress’ 125th anniversary celebrations.
The meeting to be held in the third week of September (between September 22 to 26) will take place at Netaji indoor stadium.
About 10,000 delegates from six states, including Bihar, Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, besides West Bengal, would attend the meeting, sources said.
The meeting is significant in the sense that it is being held at a time when speculation of advancing the West Bengal Assembly elections is rife.
Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is daring the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front ruling the state for over three decades to advance the polls in light of the mandate of the people.
The party workers’ meeting, however, could certainly boost the morale of the Congress’ rank and file after the humiliating defeat in the West Bengal civic polls.
The Marxists are on the defensive after the successive defeats while a section of the CPI(M) in West Bengal is blaming the leadership for taking an anti-Congress stand fearing that the Left would become irrelevant after the elections in West Bengal and Kerala.
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