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Congress
83rd plenary session begins in New Delhi
Saturday December 18, 2010 03:21:47 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The 83rd
plenary session of the Congress party began Saturday here with
party president Sonia Gandhi chairing a committee to oversee the
political, economic and foreign affairs resolutions.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attended the meeting along with
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister A.K. Antony
and party treasurer Motilal Vora at the Parliament House Annexe
here.
Gandhi heads the Subjects Committee, the name of the
decision-making panel of the party steering committee or the
working committee.
The next two days of the three-day plenary session will be held at
a sprawling tented township in Burari in northwest Delhi.
The Subject Committee will give final touches to the three major
resolutions to be presented and deliberated at the Delhi plenary,
party sources said.
It will also finalise the programme of the two-day meet, which
will be attended by 1,250 All India Congress Committee (AICC)
delegates and around 15,000 other leaders and Congress activists.
The Delhi plenary is being held at a time when the Congress-led
government is facing a series of corruption scandals and
controversies.
The political resolution at the meet, according to party sources,
is expected to declare zero tolerance on corruption.
The resolution is likely to dwell on steps to strengthen the party
across the country.
While the political resolution and the statement marking the
culmination of 125 years of the party are expected to be moved on
Sunday, the economic and foreign affairs resolutions are likely to
be moved Monday.
Gandhi will set the tone of the deliberations in her presidential
address Sunday morning.
Delhi is hosting the Congress plenary for the first time in 32
years. Indira Gandhi, then in the opposition, presided over the
last session in Delhi in 1978.
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