{"id":314558,"date":"2019-08-10T05:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T05:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314558"},"modified":"2019-08-10T05:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T05:03:33","slug":"congress-working-committee-to-meet-today-to-choose-new-party-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-working-committee-to-meet-today-to-choose-new-party-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Working Committee to meet today to choose new party president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-306585 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gandhi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/gandhi.jpg 621w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/gandhi-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet on Saturday\u00a0to choose a new party president\u00a0after Rahul Gandhi resigned from the post in May, owing moral responsibility for his party\u2019s poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Senior party leader KC Venugopal told reporters on Friday that the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chiefs, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leaders, party MPs and the All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretaries will take part in the meeting and hold consultations for selecting new chief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress suffered electoral defeat in elections, winning just 52 seats in the 543 member Lok sabha, eight more than it did in 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet on Saturday\u00a0to choose a new party president\u00a0after Rahul Gandhi resigned from the post in May, owing moral responsibility for his party\u2019s poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections. Senior party leader KC Venugopal told reporters on Friday that the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chiefs, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[236,2268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314558"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314560,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314558\/revisions\/314560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}