Congress president Kharge forms new CWC, includes some G23 members in new team

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday reconstituted the partys top decisionmaking body CWC with some leaders of the G23 grouping including Shashi Tharoor and Anand Sharma who were critical of the party leadership in the past among the 84 membersThe allimportant Congress Working Committee formed 10 months after Kharge took charge after defeating Tharoor includes several young faces who are below the age of 50 leaders from weaker sections and 15 womenThe new CWC has 39 regular members 32 permanent invitees including some incharges of state and 13 special invitees including presidents of the Youth Congress the National Students Union of India the Mahila Congress and the Seva Dal as exofficio membersMukul Wasnik Anand Sharma and Tharoor who were part of the group of 23 dissident leaders who had written to then Congress president Sonia Gandhi and had raised questions on the partys leadership are among the regular members of the new CWCManish Tewari and Veerappa Moily who were also part of the grouping have been made permanent invitees to the CWCSachin Pilot who rebelled against the partys government in Rajasthan in 2020 and was later removed as deputy chief minister is also among the new CWC membersProminent exclusions in the new CWC include exMP from Rajasthan Raghuveer Singh Meena Jai Prakash Aggarwal Dinesh Gundu Rao H K Patil K H Muniappa P L Punia Pramod Tiwari and Raghu SharmaGundu Rao Muniappa and Patil have since become ministers in the Congress government in KarnatakaFormer Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Pratibha Singh have also been included in the important panel according to a Congress statementFormer Maharashtra chief minister Ashokrao Chavan N Raghuveera Reddy Tamradhwaj Sahu Deepa Das Munshi Syed Naseer Hussain Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya G A Mir Gourav Gogoi and Jagdish Thakore are among the new additions in the CWC as regular membersAmong the new CWC permanent invitees are Kanhaiya Kumar Mohan Prakash K Raju Chandrakant Handore Meenakshi Natarajan Phulo Devi Netam Sudeep Roy Burman Damodar Raja Narasimha Gurdeep Sappal and Sachin RaoThose also included as special invitees are former Union minister Pallam Raju besides Pawan Khera Ganesh Godiyal Kodikkunil Suresh Yashomati Thakur Supriya Shrinate Priniti Shinde Alka Lamba and Vamshi Chand ReddyThe new CWC which replaces the Steering Committee that was formed as a stopgap arrangement after Kharge became the party president on October 10 last year has been announced as the principal opposition party prepares for a crucial round of assembly polls in the coming months and the 2024 general electionsThe last time the Congress Working Committee was reconstituted was on September 11 2020 under Sonia Gandhis presidentship This is the first Working Committee formed under Mallikarjun Kharges presidencyThe new working committee has been formed after several rounds of deliberationsThere are however only 15 women in the 84member body including six general members four permanent invitees and five special inviteesThe regular members of the CWC are Mallikarjun Kharge Sonia Gandhi Manmohan Singh Rahul Gandhi Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury A K Antony Ambika Soni Meira Kumar Digvijaya Singh P Chidambaram Tariq Anwar Lal Thanhawala Mukul Wasnik Anand Sharma Adhokrao Chavan Ajay Maken Charanjit Singh Channi Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Kumari Selja the statement saidGaikhangam N Raghuveera Reddy Shashi Tharoor Tamradhwaj Sahu Abhishek Singhvi Salman Khurshid Jairam Ramesh Jitendra Singh Randeep Surjewala Sachin Pilot Deepak Babaria Jagdish Thakore G S Mir Avinash Pande Deepa Das Munshi Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya Gourav Gogoi Syed Naseer Hussain Kamaleshwar Patel and K C Venugopal are also membersThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever