The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet on Saturday to finalise the strategy for the upcoming assembly elections in five states.
The two-day meeting of the CWC will in Hyderabad is expected to thrash out the party’s broad electoral roadmap factoring in the hurdles.
“The predominant one is the huge gap between the thinking of the party’s central leadership and some of its state units when it comes to alliances and seat adjustments with some INDIA members,” The IE reported
The report said the Congress central leadership is upbeat about the INDIA alliance, and believes that the tone and tenor of the campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections may not revolve this time around the “Modi vs Rahul” theme.
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The report quoting sources said the party would have preferred waiting for the outcome of the coming Assembly elections in five states, as a good show there would give it more bargaining power.
“But given the pressure over seat-sharing from other parties, the leadership will discuss the issue with state leaders,” it said.
The CWC will be holding a meeting, its first since it was reconstituted and since the INDIA alliance was formed.
The reports said the state Congress chiefs, party Chief Ministers and CLP leaders have been invited for the extended meet.
The Congress expects pushback from its Punjab, Delhi and West Bengal units, the reports said.
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It is rare for the Congress to hold a CWC meeting outside Delhi.
On Sunday, after the CWC meeting ends, the Congress will hold a rally in Hyderabad, where it will announce six poll guarantees for the state – which proved a game changer in the Karnataka elections in May, it said.
Later, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will “flag off a cavalcade for all CWC members, invitees, PCC chiefs and CLP leaders to visit each of the 119 Assembly constituencies of Telangana”, it added.
