New Delhi, Aug 19 (PTI) Top Congress leaders met here on Wednesday to discuss the political situation in the country, including the roadmap to step up pressure on the government on issues of students and the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple.
The Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting began at 3pm at Indira Bhawan, with party president Mallikarjun Kharge chairing it and top leaders, including former party chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Jairam Ramesh and K C Venugopal, senior leaders Ambika Sonia, Mukul Wasnik, P Chidambaram, among others in attendance.
The meeting was also attended by Congress chief ministers A Revanth Reddy (Telangana), V D Satheesan (Kerala), Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu (Himachal Pradesh), and D K Shivakumar (Karnataka).
The opposition party’s roadmap to corner the BJP-led Centre on issues of students and the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple was on the agenda, sources said.
A review of the party’s preparations for the Assembly polls early next year was also being undertaken. Polls are likely to take place in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur early next year.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to opposition parties to support a delimitation-linked Bill to implement women’s reservation in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies was also likely to come up for discussion.
Asked about the possibility of such a Bill being brought by the government in the near future, Ramesh had last week said, “We are in touch with all parties. We continue to be in touch with all parties, I am sure that this issue will be discussed on August 19 when the CWC meets.” “We cannot afford to relax, you know, because they (government) will try all sorts of tricks. But they do not have the numbers, and the gap between what they claim to have now and what they need is not a small gap. It is a substantial two-digit gap.” After the last CWC meeting in April, the Congress had accused the Modi government of playing politics in the name of the women’s-reservation law and asserted that the proposed delimitation exercise linked to it is “not constitutional” and can have “grave consequences”. PTI ASK ASK MDO MDO
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