THE first meeting of the newly-constituted Congress Working Committee under party chief Mallikarjun Kharge will be held in Hyderabad on September 16 and will be followed by an election rally near the State capital the next day in poll-bound Telangana. Announcing this at a press conference held at the All India Congress Committee headquarters here, Congress general secretary organisation K C Venugopal said an extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting will be held on September 17 that will include all Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chiefs. The meeting will discuss the political situation in the country and review the party’s poll preparedness in five states where elections are due this year. A political resolution will also be passed at the meeting.

 

The CWC is the top decision-making body of the Congress, and Kharge had reconstituted it in August, 10 months after he took charge as the Congress president. With the Congress seeking to consolidate its hold in the poll-bound southern state, Venugopal said that on September 17 evening, which is celebrated as Telangana National Integration Day, the party will hold a “mega rally” near Hyderabad, where it will announce five guarantees for the Telangana Assembly election.

 

“September 17, 2023 is the big day for Telangana, as you all know. September 17, 2023 evening, we are holding a massive mega rally near Hyderabad. “Congress President, former Congress presidents and all other senior leaders of the party will attend that mega rally nearby Hyderabad,” Venugopal told reporters at the presser where Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh was also present. Assembly elections in Telangana are slated later this year and the Congress is pulling all stops to wrest power from the ruling BRS. The K Chandrasekhar Rao-led BRS has been in power for the last almost 10 years and is facing a challenge from both Congress and BJP.