As announced during the party's Chintan Shivir in Udaipur, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has set up a Political Affairs Group to advise her on key issues, a Task Force-2024, and a Central Planning Group for 'Bharat Jodo Yatra'.
Among the members of the Political Affairs Group are Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, and KC Venugopal.
Azad and Sharma's inclusion in the panel assumes significance as both are members of the G-23, a group of senior party leaders who are pushing for internal reforms in the party.
The Task Force-2024 will have senior leaders P Chidambaram, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal, Sunil Kanugolu, and Randeep Singh Surjewala as its members.
"Each member of the task force shall be assigned specific tasks related to organisation, communications and outreach, finance and election management," an official notice from the Congress read.
Congress' Chintan Shivir & Bharat Jodo Yatra
The Chintan Shivir, which was called after the party's abysmal defeat in the recently held state Assembly elections, was attended by over 400 delegates from the Congress, and deliberated on structural reorganisation of the party.
In her opening remarks at the session in Rajasthan's Udaipur, the party's interim President Sonia Gandhi said that the conclave was a time to deliberate on both national problems and the party's own issues.
"We are in dire need of improvements," she stated.
After the 3-day conclave ended, Gandhi announced that the party would launch a 'Bharat Jodo' Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir on 2 October (Gandhi Jayanti) this year, urging all party leaders to participate in it.
"The manner in which BJP is becoming entrenched, it can only be defeated through a mass movement. The same manner in which Congress' dominance was broken through the anti-Emergency movement, Mandal and Mandir and the India Against Corruption protest," a leader had earlier said at the Shivir.
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