{"id":300694,"date":"2018-07-22T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300694"},"modified":"2018-07-22T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T14:10:09","slug":"congress-working-committee-authorize-rahul-gandhi-to-form-alliance-against-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-working-committee-authorize-rahul-gandhi-to-form-alliance-against-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress working committee authorize Rahul Gandhi to form alliance against BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300695 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc-696x534.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc-548x420.jpg 548w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-cwc.jpg 1009w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/>The Congress Working Committee on Sunday authorised party president Rahul Gandhi to form alliance against BJP with &#8220;like minded parties&#8221; for 2019 Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi addressed the first Congress Working Committee (CWC) after it was revamped. In the meeting, he said, \u201cThe CWC evolved during freedom struggle. It\u2019s a forum where India expressed, debated, contested and consented ideas to take the nation from colonial rule to freedom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCWC gave voice to every single Indian. It accommodated views from different perspectives and gave space to the weakest voices of India. Our collective challenge is to shape our current CWC to that level,\u201d Gandhi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have tried to strike to a balance between the youth and experience in the CWC. The central idea behind the formation of this CWC is to make it inclusive, diverse &amp; dynamic and representative,\u201d Gandhi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking on the strategy for 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi said, \u201cExpansion of our party vote base is one of our biggest tasks. In each constituency, we have to find people who have not voted for us and develop a strategy to reach out to them and win back their trust.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in the meeting said, \u201cI assure Rahul Gandhiji that we will fully support him in his onerous task of restoring India&#8217;s social harmony and economic development.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in the meeting said, \u201cWe have to rescue our people from a dangerous regime that is compromising the democracy of India.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">AICC general secretary Ashok Gehlot in a press briefing at the party headquarters after the meeting said, &#8220;Rahul ji has been authorised to form election campaign committee and take decisions on pre-poll and post-poll alliance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last week, Rahul Gandhi formed his first CWC by appointing 23 regular members, 18 permanent and ten special invitees.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress Working Committee on Sunday authorised party president Rahul Gandhi to form alliance against BJP with &#8220;like minded parties&#8221; for 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Rahul Gandhi addressed the first Congress Working Committee (CWC) after it was revamped. In the meeting, he said, \u201cThe CWC evolved during freedom struggle. It\u2019s a forum where India expressed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[236,3822,2268,857,579,1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300696,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300694\/revisions\/300696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}