The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in New Delhi today (October 16).
The party's highest decision-making body is anticipated to endorse an organisational election for a full-term president rather than an interim election for the position of president
in the meet.
Sonia Gandhi, who was named interim chief after her son Rahul Gandhi resigned over the 2019 election debacle, is anticipated to stay on until the entire process of new memberships and a
full-fledged election from the district to the national level is completed.
The current political situation, price hikes, farmer protests, and the country's economic dilemma are all likely to be discussed in the first CWC meet after the covid outbreak.
Members of the CWC, permanent invitees and special invitees of the committee, as well as the chief ministers of Congress-ruled states will attend the meeting.
This decision will have to be ratified by the Congress Working Committee with certain members, such as Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma, members of the so-called "G-23" group,
calling for internal party elections.
Most CWC members believe that a membership drive and internal elections should be held from the grassroots to the top and that a president should be elected for a full term, not just until
December 2022, according to sources.
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Many leaders, on the other hand, believe that instead of holding an interim election for the position of party president, the focus should be on winning important state elections in early
2022.
The CWC is unlikely to address disciplinary matters, but it will certainly address the upcoming state elections and the need for unity among the party's various factions to defeat the
BJP in various states.
Last year, the Congress' internal turmoil made front-page news when the G-23 sent Sonia Gandhi an unprecedented letter demanding significant changes and a "visible and effective leadership."
Since then, numerous leaders have reminded the Gandhis that nothing has changed on the ground, and the Congress' downhill slide continues even as it deals with state-level instability
from Punjab to Chhattisgarh.
Amarinder Singh, Sushmita Dev, and Luizinho Faleiro are among the many leaders who have left Congress.
When Jyotiraditya Scindia, one of Rahul Gandhi's closest confidantes, shifted to the BJP last year, the nosebleed began. Jitin Prasada followed suit earlier this year. The party has failed to reconcile the conflict between Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot in Rajasthan.