Rahul constitutes new CWC with old guard, young faces

NEWDELHI: Seven months after he took over the reins of the Congress, the party’s president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday reconstituted the Congress Working Committee (CWC), inducting a mix of experienced politicians and youthful faces in the party’s highest decision-making body.

The 51-member panel, including the main 23-member CWC, 18 permanent invitees and 10 special invitees, replaces the steering committee formed after the previous CWC was dissolved on Februleaders,

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Central and state government must launch radio and TV broadcasts to raise awareness of punishment

State governments should prepare a lynching/mob violence victim ary 16.

Apart from Gandhi, his mother and predecessor Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the 23-member CWC includes senior

Police or administration officers will face action for negligence in case they fail to stop a particular incident Administrations should identify districts, sub-divisions and villages where lynching and mob violence have occurred recently

Families of the victims should be protected from further harassment often referred to as the ‘Old Guard’ in party circles, like Motilal Vora, Ahmed Patel, Ghulam Nabi Azad and AK Antony.

The new additions include former chief ministers Oommen Chandy (Kerala), Tarun Gogoi (Assam), Siddaramaiah (Karnataka) and Harish Rawat (Uttarakhand), Anand Sharma, Kumari Selja, Tamradhwaj Sahu, Raghuveer Meena, Avinash Pande and Gaikhangam Gangmei.

The average age of the 23 members in the CWC is a little more than 68.

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