New Delhi: To examine the outcomes of the recently finished Lok Sabha elections, whose results were declared on June 4, the Congress has set a meeting of its Working Committee on June 8. The meeting has been called by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, who will also preside over it.
It is scheduled for June 8 at 11 AM at the Congress headquarters. According to sources, party leaders will evaluate the election results in detail.
“The Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting has been called by party chief Mallikarjun Kharge on June 8. A range of important party issues, the Lok Sabha poll results and the broad strategy over the coming days is likely to be discussed,” a senior All India Congress Committee (AICC) functionary said.
According to party insiders, the Congress leadership is excited over almost doubling of party seats in the Lok Sabha, from 52 in 2029 to 99 in 2024, and want to assess the factors that helped the grand old party achieve that feat despite several operational challenges, including blocking of party’s bank accounts by the Modi government.
Although Kharge gave a clarion call to all the regional parties, who wished to safeguard constitutional democracy, to join the opposition grouping after the INDIA bloc meeting on June 5, party insiders said the issue needed to be discussed within the top party body as well given the pivotal role the Congress would have to play over the coming days.
Also, the need to pursue the organisational revamp, which had been held up over the past year due to the five state polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram in 2023 and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, were likely to be discussed during the CWC meeting on June 8.
