Kharge forms 47-member panel, retains most from CWC
New Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Wednesday set up a Steering Committee which, the party said, would function in place of the Congress Working Committee, till a new CWC is formed.
Most of the members of the last CWC, including former prime minister Manmohan Singh and former party presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, have been retained in the interim panel announced just hours after Kharge took over as the new party chief.
Shashi Tharoor, who was Kharge’s contender in the party’s presidential elections, is not among the committee members.
The CWC is the apex decision-making body of the Congress and the Steering Committee will now take all decisions till the ratification of Kharge’s election at the party’s plenary session. The session is likely to be held in March next year.