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The Congress Working Committee (CWC) is the executive committee of the Indian National Congress. It typically consists of fifteen members elected from the All India Congress Committee. It is headed by the Working President.
The Working Committee has had different levels of in the party at different times. In the period prior to 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 bosses 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".
Contents
1 Composition
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
Composition
President
- Rahul Gandhi
Member
- Sonia Gandhi
Manmohan Singh Former PM
A. K. Antony MP
Ahmed Patel MP
Ambika Soni MP
Ghulam Nabi Azad MP
Motilal Vora MP
Mallikarjun Kharge MP
Ashok Gehlot Ex CM Rajasthan
K.C Venugopal MP
Avinash Pande MP- Dipak Babaria
Anand Sharma MP
Oommen Chandy Ex CM Kerala
Tarun Gogoi Ex CM Assam
Harish Rawat Ex CM Uttarakhand
Siddaramaiah Ex CM Karnataka
Selja Kumari MP
Mukul Wasnik Ex MP
Raghuveer Meena Ex MP
Gaikhangam Gangmei Ex Dy CM Manipur
Tamradhwaj Sahu MP
Permanent Invitee
Sheila Dikshit Ex CM Delhi
P. Chidambaram MP
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia MP- Balasaheb Thorat
Tariq Hameed Karra Ex MP- P. C. Chacko
- Jitendra Singh
- R. P. N. Singh
P. L. Punia MP- Randeep Surjewala
Asha Kumari MLA- Rajni Patil
- Ramachandra Khuntia
Anuragh Narayan singh Ex MLA
Rajiv Satav MP- Shaktisinh Gohil
Gaurav Gogoi MP- A. Chellakumar
Meira Kumar Former Speaker Loksabha
Special Invitee
- K. H. Muniyappa
- Arun Yadav
- Depender Hooda
- Jitin Prasada
- Kuldeep Bishnoi
- G. Sanjeeva Reddy
- IYC President
- Fairoz Khan
- Sushmita Dev
- Chief Organizer Sevadal
See also
- Indian National Congress
- All India Congress Committee
- Pradesh Congress Committee
References
^ "Towards a More Competitive Party System in India", Ram Joshi and Kirtidev Desai, Asian Survey, Vol. 18, No. 11. (Nov., 1978), pp. 1091-1116.
External links
- Official All India Congress Committee website
- Official Indian National Congress website