CWC likely to ask Sonia to choose presidential nominee
Tuesday May 29, 2012 11:47:32 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A meeting
of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) has been called June 4 to
discuss the current political situation, with the party's highest
decision-making body also expected to pass a resolution
authorising party chief Sonia Gandhi to choose the presidential
nominee, party sources said.
The CWC meeting comes days ahead of the notification for
presidential polls, expected by the middle of June.
"The CWC is likely to pass a resolution urging Congress president
to take a decision on party's presidential candidate," a senior
party leader, who spoke on the condition of anynomity, told IANS.
The names of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President
Hamid Ansari have been doing the rounds as possible Congress
candidates but the party has not indicated its choice so far.
Party leaders have also not ruled out the possibility of a dark
horse emerging.
There also have been reports about some partymen campaigning to
push Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Rashtrapati Bhavan but a
senior leader told IANS that such a scenario was unlikely.
Officially, the Congress has refused to comment on a question that
the prime minister had thrown his hat in the ring and insisted
that the office of president should not be brought within the
realm of speculation.
Congress has held discussions with its allies in the United
Progressive Alliance (UPA) on the presidential candidate and
another round of consultations was likely to be held before the
party declares the name of its candidate, party sources said. The
term of President Pratibha Patil ends in July this year.
The CWC meeting is likely to take stock of the party's performance
in the assembly polls in five states earlier this year and its
preparations for the assembly polls later this year in Himachal
Pradesh and Gujarat.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi had set up a panel headed by
Defence Minister A.K. Antony to analyse the party's performance in
the polls. The panel has submitted its report.
While the Congress retained Manipur and was able to scrape past
the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form a government in
Uttarakhand, it suffered reverses in Punjab and Goa. The party
also fared poorly in Uttar Pradesh.
Party sources said the CWC was likely to discuss the political
fallout of the recent hike in price of petrol which has rallied
political parties against the Congress. The meeting is expected to
take stock of the impact of strike calls by opposition parties May
31 against the hike.
With economic parameters, including rising inflation and
depreciating value of rupee, causing concern among the common man
and threatening to impact the "aam aadmi" plank of the Congress,
the CWC meeting is expected to deliberate ways to provide a
cushion to people.
Party sources said the political problems in Andhra Pradesh in
view of demands for separate state of Telangana and arrest of YSR
Congress Party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy in a disproportionate
assets case may also come up for discussion.
The sources said the meeting will also discuss ways to reach out
to people with the anti-corruption legislative measures and other
initiatives of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in
the wake of reports that the ruling alliance was lagging behind
the opposition in the "battle of perception" among people.
They said party chief ministers, state unit presidents, special
invitees and permanent invitees expected to attend the meeting of
"extended CWC."
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