Defined: What’s CWC, the best decision-making physique of Congress

The Congress on Sunday convened its emergency Congress Working Committee (CWC) assembly to evaluation its efficiency after its poor efficiency within the simply concluded Meeting elections of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur.

The Congress was unseated by the Aam Aadmi Celebration in Punjab, successful simply 18 towards the Arvind Kejriwal-led occasion’s phenomenal tally of 92 seats. The Grand Previous Celebration managed simply two seats, only one greater than Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Celebration’s tally.

Now allow us to let you know what precisely is the CWC, who represent the manager panel and different issues that it’s essential know.

What’s the CWC?
It’s the highest government committee of the Congress and has a ultimate say within the selections taken by the Grand Previous Celebration. In line with the Congress structure, the CWC is comprised of the working president, the chief of the occasion and 23 different members. Out of those 23, 12 are elected by the All India Congress Committee and the remaining are nominated by the occasion president.

Membership of the CWC
The CWC principally contains prime leaders who’re carefully related to the choice making course of within the occasion. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Ambika Soni are a few of the distinguished members.

The insurgent group, additionally known as G-23, who has been demanding contemporary organisational reforms within the occasion, additionally has members together with Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal, Manish Tewari and others.

When have been the final elections held?
Political pundits recall solely two cases when the elections have been held to choose the members of CWC. In 1992, then prime minister and Congress president PV Narasimha Rao had held elections to the panel, hoping that his favourites could be elected. When his critics together with Arjun Singh and Sharad Pawar have been elected, Rao obtained your entire CWC to resign citing that there have been no members from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and girls members.

The second occasion of elections being held was in 1997 beneath the presidentship of Sitaram Kesri on the Kolkata (then Calcutta) session. Ahmed Patel, Madhav Rao Scindia, Pranab Mukherjee have been the members who made it to the Congress Working Committee.