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Congress Working Committee

The Congress Working Committee (CWC) is the executive committee of the Indian National Congress. It was formed in December 1920 at Nagpur session of INC which was headed by C. Vijayaraghavachariar. It is composed of senior party leaders and is responsible for taking decisions on important policy and organizational matters, as well as guiding and directing the party's activities and campaigns at the national level. It typically consists of fifteen members elected from the All India Congress Committee (AICC). The CWC is headed by the party president, who is elected by the members of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), the party's central governing body.

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Mahatma Gandhi attends a Congress Working Committee meeting at Anand Bhavan, Allahabad; Vallabhbhai Patel to the left, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit to the right, January 1940.

The Working Committee has had different levels of power in the party at different times. In the period prior to Indian independence in 1947, the Working Committee was the centre of power, and the Working President was frequently more active than the Congress President. In the period after 1967, when the Congress Party split for the first time (between factions loyal to Indira Gandhi and those led by the Syndicate of regional leaders including Kamaraj, Prafulla Chandra Sen, Ajoy Mukherjee, and Morarji Desai), the power of the Working Committee declined; but Indira Gandhi's triumph in 1971 led to a re-centralisation of power away from the states and the All-India Congress Committee and caused the Working Committee in Delhi to once again be the paramount decision-making body of the party.[1] The centralised nature of Congress decision making has since caused observers in the states to informally describe instructions from Delhi as coming from the High Command.

Composition of Congress Working Committee

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President

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Members[5]

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1. Sonia Gandhi Thumb
2. Rahul Gandhi Thumb
3. A. K. Antony Thumb
4. Ambika Soni Thumb
5. Abhishek Singhvi Thumb
6. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Thumb
7. Ajay Maken Thumb
8. Anand Sharma Thumb
9. Jairam Ramesh Thumb
10. Gaikhangam Gangmei
11. Jitendra Singh Thumb
12. Selja Kumari Thumb
13. Dr Lal Thanhawla Thumb
14. Mukul Wasnik Thumb
15. Charanjit Singh Channi Thumb
16. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
17. P. Chidambaram Thumb
18. Randeep Surjewala Thumb
19. N. Raghuveera Reddy Thumb
20. Tariq Anwar
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21. Sachin Pilot Thumb
22. Tamradhwaj Sahu
23. Shashi Tharoor Thumb
24. Salman Khurshid Thumb
25. Digvijaya Singh Thumb
26. Bhupesh Baghel Thumb
27. Meira Kumar Thumb
28. Jagdish Thakor
29. Ghulam Ahmad Mir
30. Avinash Pandey
31. Deepa Dasmunsi Thumb
32. Gaurav Gogoi Thumb
33. Syed Naseer Hussain
34. Kamleshwar Patel Thumb
35. K. C. Venugopal Thumb
36. Balasaheb Thorat
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Permanent Invitees

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1. Alka Lamba Thumb President, All India Mahila Congress
2. Varun Choudhary President, NSUI
3. Uday Bhanu Chib President, IYC
4. Lalji Desai Chief Organiser ,Seva Dal
5. Supriya Shrinate Thumb Chairman, Social Media & Platforms
6. Challa Vamshi Chand Reddy Ex MLA
7. Kodikunnil Suresh Thumb MP
8. Yashomati Thakur Ex MLA
9. Gidugu Rudra Raju ex President APCC
10. Ganesh Godiyal Thumb Ex MLA
11. Praniti Shinde MP
12. M. M. Pallam Raju Thumb ex-MP
13. Pawan Khera Chairman, Media & Publicity
14. Vikar Rasool Wani Ex President J&KPCC
15. Naseem Khan Ex MLA Maharashtra
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Criticism

The Congress has not held internal elections for CWC for nearly 20 years and the last elections were held in 1998.[8] In 2017 Election Commission ordered it to hold internal elections[9] but as of 2020 no elections were held.[10] When Congress was trying to forge an alliance with ideologically opposite Shiv Sena in Maharashtra in 2019, Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam publicly urged Sonia Gandhi to dissolve the CWC, saying "they cannot be trusted anymore."[11] [12] In 2020 a paper by Observer Research Foundation calls a large number of CWC members "unprincipled, opportunists and self-serving individuals for whom self-interest is paramount."[13]

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