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The News
- The Congress working committee (CWC) met in January last week and decided to put off the exercise of internal elections until June 2021 in view of the forthcoming Assembly elections in four states.
- Background:
- In July 2019, Rahul Gandhi stepped down as Congress president taking moral responsibility for the Congress’s disastrous showing in the Lok Sabha elections.
- In August 2019, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) appointed Sonia Gandhi as interim president.
- Note: Rahul Gandhi had suggested that someone from outside the Gandhi family should helm the party.
Structure of INC
President’s Election in INC
The Actual President’s Elections
Why the clamor of Elections?
- There has been pressure on the leadership from a group of influential leaders — popularly known as G-23, to hold elections for President, CWC and CEC.
- Note: CEC finalises party candidates for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections..!!
- Why G-23?
- According to the Congress constitution, the CWC shall consist of the party president, its leader in Parliament, and 23 other members.
- 12 will be elected by the AICC and 11 nominated by the president.
- According to the Congress constitution, the CWC shall consist of the party president, its leader in Parliament, and 23 other members.
What’s going to happen in June 2021?
- The CWC in 2019 had appointed Sonia as the provisional president.
- Now, a regular president will be appointed for the rest of the term. (2017-22).
- The president is elected by an electoral college of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) delegates but a regular president is appointed by the All India Congress Committee (AICC).
- AICC consists of “one-eighth of the number of the PCC members elected by them from amongst themselves by proportional representation according to the system of single transferable vote”.
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