Congress holds essential assembly after ballot drubbing: Key factors | India Information – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision-making physique of the Congress, held an important assembly within the nationwide capital on Sunday after the social gathering’s dismal present within the current meeting elections.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is presiding over in the present day’s assembly which is being held to evaluate the grand outdated social gathering’s current flop present within the elections and chalk out a technique for the long run.
The Congress misplaced Punjab to the AAP and couldn’t wrest any of the 4 different states — Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur — from the BJP.
Listed below are the important thing updates from the assembly …
* Quite a few Congress staff had gathered in assist of former social gathering chief Rahul Gandhi close to the AICC headquarter within the nationwide capital forward of an important assembly of the social gathering’s working committee the place its electoral debacle within the current meeting polls can be mentioned.

* The Congress staff from round Delhi, who converged close to the social gathering workplace, weren’t allowed to enter the AICC headquarter because the site visitors was held up and the highway exterior the social gathering workplace was barricaded by the police.
* Forward of the assembly, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot mentioned nobody was taking up Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Gandhi does and was preventing resolutely.
“The Prime Minister has to start out his speech after focusing on Rahul Gandhi, you possibly can perceive what this implies,” Gehlot mentioned.
* Former PM Manmohan Singh and three different Congress leaders did not attend the assembly. Congress chief AK Antony additionally skipped the assembly as he has been examined Covid optimistic.