INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
RAIPUR: For Congress recently successful in cornering BJP and the Modi government over issues, and installing a fancy public link program
like Bharat Jodo Yatra, the elephant in the room has been the continuing lack of electoral revival post-2019, with the only aberration to
the bleak run being the current win in Himachal Pradesh.For the 85th plenary session which got under way on Friday, the celebration unveiled
a heavy three-day agenda which includes structural modifications to the party, reconstitution of the CWC, discussion on concerns ranging
from economic to farmers and political
For the 15,000 delegates collected from every nook and corner of states, the leading most concern is how would the party return to its
winning methods, which has actually defined many of its existence over 138 years
And there isunanimity in the rank and file that the celebration has actually not seen the existential risk that it is confronted with
because the arrival of the Modi federal government at the Centre.Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge put the plenary session in context,
when he opened the meeting of the steering committee by cutting through the fluff and underlining that in the history of Congress, this
Chhattisgarh plenary comes in the backdrop of elections to half a dozen states followed by Lok Sabha elections in 2024
It is a big challenge for us, in addition to a chance
The state polls in coming months are a must-win for Congress, an image made more critical by the fact that end-year contests would be in
party-ruled states of Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan besides MP which it won last time, while BJP-ruled Karnataka in April-May is an arena that
the celebration has actually counted on for lots of months to stem its post-2019 downslide
There is also the BRS-ruled Telangana which was a Congress fortress and where BJP is trying hard to encroach on the partys base
These polls will set the tone for 2024 when Congress hopes to provide a battle to BJP.
