The eighty fifth Congress plenary session kicked off8 on Friday in Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur primarily endorsing the management of the celebration’s nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge. The session started with a steering committee assembly to finalise the agenda for the three-day assembly.
Round 15,000 Congress delegates are in Raipur for the ‘Haath se Haath Jodo’ Plenary Session to brainstorm for 3 days to attend the assembly which is able to will pave the way in which for the brand new working committee and set the tone for the Congress’ 2024 nationwide ballot marketing campaign.
The eighty fifth plenary periods that started on February 24 will go on until February 26.
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On the primary day of the three-day session, the steering committee, which is enjoying the position of the Working Committee (the earlier one was dissolved till a brand new CWC is fashioned), will meet at 10am on Friday and determine on whether or not there will probably be elections to the highest decision-making physique or not, folks acquainted with the matter stated.
In line with the folks cited above, through the three-day session, the celebration will lay out a roadmap for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and forging ballot tie-ups with like-minded events to tackle the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) will probably be mentioned.
Whereas all eyes lie on the outcomes of this 12 months’s plenary periods which is able to present the way in which for the Normal elections scheduled subsequent 12 months, here’s a throwback to what had emerged from the earlier 5 plenary periods of the Congress.
Other than the celebration’s nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge, former presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi can even attend the conference.
84th Congress plenary periods (2018, Delhi)
Held on the Indira Gandhi Indoor stadium in New Delhi in March 2018, this was additionally then Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s first plenary session because the celebration head.
The Congress revealed its political roadmap for the then-upcoming 2019 normal elections on the periods. On the final day, Rahul Gandhi delivered a 50-minute lengthy speech attacking the ruling NDA (Nationwide Democratic Alliance) authorities and Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central authorities’s overseas coverage referring to India’s relations with Pakistan, China, Maldives, and Sri Lanka.
83rd Congress plenary periods (2010, Delhi)
Held on the Parliament Home Annexe, Delhi, through the Congress’ a hundred and twenty fifth anniversary in December 2010, 4 resolutions on political, financial, and overseas affairs and 125 years of the Congress celebration have been adopted through the plenary periods chaired by then Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The plenary additionally referred to as upon the federal government to research the position of right-wing Hindu outfit Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and all like-minded sister organizations in terror assaults amongst different points just like the 2G spectrum controversy, conditions in Jammu & Kashmir, revelations by WikiLeaks cable on then Congress Normal Secretary Rahul Gandhi amongst others.
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82nd Congress plenary periods (2006, Hyderabad)
The 82nd plenary session of Congress held in January 2006 was additionally the primary one for Rahul Gandhi as a celebration member and the demand for the inclusion of Rahul within the Congress Working Committee or his appointment as normal secretary of the All Indian Congress Committee (AICC) was the spotlight of the session held in Hyderabad. Different essential points like coalition and alliances have been additionally among the many prime discussions after the celebration got here into energy after eight lengthy years.
81st Congress plenary periods (2001, Bangalore)
Held within the backdrop of the Tehelka revelations and the opposition outcry demanding the resignation of the Atal Behari Vajpayee-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) authorities. Explosive contents of the tapes modified the main focus, course, and consequence of the session held in Bangalore’s Palace grounds and reworked the plenary from one which might at most have issued a relatively unsure marketing campaign message for the approaching meeting elections in 4 States and a Union Territory, to 1 which issued a digital call-to-arms for a struggle in opposition to then PM Atal Bihari led-BJP authorities in New Delhi.
eightieth Congress plenary periods (1997, Kolkata)
Held in Kolkata every week earlier than India’s fiftieth anniversary of Independence, the eightieth periods in 1997 are outstanding as a decision was handed to make Sonia Gandhi the celebration president changing Sitaram Kesri. This got here at a time when the Communist Social gathering of India (Marxist) had maintained their stronghold over West Bengal and then again, Mamata Banerjee had introduced the formation of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) at a rally attended by Congress employees.