Congress eyes Bihar optics: CWC to meet in Patna on September 24

New Delhi: A meeting of the extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) will be held in Patna on September 24.

The meeting is meant to be a symbolic build-up for setting the atmospherics for the Congress preparations for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, incidentally amid a hectic tug-of-war among the Mahagathbandhan allies over seat-sharing negotiations.

Apart from Mallikarjun Kharge, the Gandhis, the AICC general secretaries, three chief ministers will also attend the CWC meeting that is expected to highlight the Congress' vision for the future of Bihar, the party's planks against the Modi government, including against Special Intensive Revision and "vote chori".


The party functionaries feel the gathering of top Congress leaders in Bihar's capital will help build further on the optics of the recent 'voter adhikar yatra' that Rahul Gandhi and RJD's Tejashwi Yadav had led along with other INDIA bloc leaders.

The decision to hold the CWC meeting in Patna comes at a time when the Congress is facing pressure from its allies to settle for 10-15 less seats than the 70 seats it had contested in the last election, something that the party leadership is trying to resist.

The Bihar Congress unit has already started the process of consultations on the probable candidates for the seats the party is expected to contest and the process of candidates selection will shift to the AICC screening committee later this month.