New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi will chair a meeting
of the Congress Working Committee today, his first as
Congress president.
The CWC will accord a warm welcome to the new president
and likely discuss the current political situation, including
the ramifications of the Congress's strong performance in the
Gujarat Assembly polls for the party in future.
Party sources said the 2G spectrum case judgement
acquitting all the accused is also likely to be discussed. The
BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had used the alleged scam
to the hilt while mounting a fierce campaign against the
Congress in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Alleged corruption under UPA II was widely believed to
have led to the defeat of the Manmohan Singh government.
The Congress, sources said, wants to take the 2G issue
to the people for which it is likely to formalise a plan
soon. The CWC, the party's highest decision-making body, is
also likely to adopt a resolution to this effect.
AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said the CWC
meeting will commence at 10:30 a.m.
The agenda for the meeting was, however, not officially
disclosed.
Though Rahul Gandhi has chaired CWC meetings in the past
in the absence of his mother Sonia Gandhi, it will be for the
first time that he will preside over it as Congress president.
Gandhi was elected unopposed as Congress chief on
December 11 and assumed the party's reins on December 16.
PTI
