In the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress got political Sanjeevani, but the atmosphere in 2024 has faded the defeat of Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi. The Congress is going to brainstorm to stand up again and compete with BJP. The two -day session of the Congress in Ahmedabad, Gujarat starts on Tuesday. For the next two days, veteran Congress leaders will contemplate and brainstorm the challenges of national politics. Along with this, the future road map will be prepared by deciding the party’s stand on many major issues.
The Congress has chosen Gujarat for its session after 64 years. Earlier, the Congress session was held in Bhavnagar in 1961, now after six decades again, an effort will be made to find the mantra of victory from Ahmedabad in Gujarat again. Even before the Ahmedabad full session, both Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi have talked very clearly on the shortcomings of the party and said that the year 2025 will be the year of the organization. Ahmedabad session Congress is the 86th full session. A new path can be opened for the party.
Congress session outline
A two -day Congress session with the tagline ‘Nyaya, Sankalp, Dedication, Conflict’ tagline in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. On Tuesday, on the first day of the session, there will be a meeting of Congress Working Committee i.e. CWC in Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial. In this, 262 Congress leaders from across the country will participate, which will be chaired by Mallikarjun Kharge. On Wednesday, the second day of the session, the Sabarmati Riverfront will include members of the Congress CWC, besides the President of the State Congress Committee, the Chief Minister of the Congress -ruled states and some senior leaders.
Congress leader Pawan Kheda said on Monday before the party session that after slogans like ‘Congress Mukt Bharat’, the party is still standing firmly and the public is looking at it with expectations. He also said that the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel will show the way forward in this challenging time, today every section of the society, whether it is middle class, Dalit, tribal or minority, feel cheated under BJP rule in the center and Gujarat.
Congress will emphasize on the organization
The Congress has announced that this is the year of the organization. This full session of the year is being held in Gujarat. In such a situation, the Congress should have gone with new people of the organization, but most of the officials are old. There has been a change in Bihar itself and the district president of UP has been changed. However, the Congress has made a new beginning from Bihar and is in the exercise to strengthen its organization from the ground. The Congress leadership has wanted to know his mind and know his mind. The workers who attended the party leadership session will have to assure that this time it is not only promising the major change in the organization but it is to be implemented.
The manner in which the Congress has established its organization in a few months in Bihar, it has taken the same resolution for its organization across the country. Sources said that the party can make several announcements about its organizational rejuvenation, including giving more rights to the District Congress Presidents and ensuring accountability. It is believed that the Congress can also decide to include the role of the district president in the selection of candidates in the election.
Many important proposals can be brought for the exercise to strengthen the Congress at the ground level. In this way, the emphasis of the Congress can be to fit the organization. The reason for this is not an organization to carry forward Congress ideas. Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge had also said in the meeting of the district president that the district organization can do the job of transporting the party’s ideology from door to door. The Congress has understood that without strengthening the bin organization, it cannot compete with the BJP.
Congress will decide political agenda
The Congress will decide the condition and direction ahead of the 2 -day session. It is believed that on which issues the Congress will surround the government and with which agenda will move forward, it will become clear in the session. In the Congress meeting, there can be an effort to give political messages to its leaders by passing the Congress proposal on the security of reservation of reservation, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes, inflation and commitment to ideology in the Congress meeting. I
Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala will submit a work sheet before the CWC on Tuesday, in which it will be decided whether a universal proposal should be brought or separate proposals should be made. In the session, the Congress will discuss political and economic proposals and decide to adopt them. During this time, the Congress will emphasize on the protection of existing reservation for Dalit, OBC and tribal society, but at the same time it can take important decisions on reservation in the private sector as well. The Congress is constantly vocal on the issue of social justice, attack on constitution and religious division.
Social engineering of Congress
Rahul Gandhi is running on the issue of social justice. Issues like caste census in the country, increasing the 50 percent limit of reservation are carrying Congress. The focus of the Congress is on Dalit, OBC, tribal and minority voters. It is believed that the Congress can decide the political agenda by keeping the votes of these society in the focus. Apart from this, the way the Congress is taking out a padyatra on the issue of employment in Bihar, similarly in other states of the country, it can decide to launch a campaign for jobs.
After independence, the core votebank of the Congress used to be a Dalit-Muslim-Brahmin and some upper castes. The Congress continued to do politics for a long time with the help of this caste equation. All the castes of the OBC class have been opposing the Congress. In the changing political atmosphere of the country, the Congress has taken a step towards changing its political foundation too. The Congress is now working on a strategy to make Dalit, extremely backward and Muslim community in its favor. The party is raising the issue of constitution and reservation prominently, which is trying to give a message to these classes that only the Congress can protect their rights. In this way, the Congress is in an exercise to create a new social engineering.
Framework will be made for electoral states
The Congress will also finalize its strategy for the assembly elections to be held this year and next year. Due to this, everyone’s eyes are on the Ahmedabad session of the Congress, from where a new ray of hope can be awakened for him. Assembly elections are due in Bihar in 2025, while assembly elections are to be held in 2026 in West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. In this context, this meeting of Congress is being considered very important.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress got a tremendous encouragement among party leaders after winning double seats compared to 2019, but after that the Congress’s performance in the assembly elections held in many states has been disappointing. The defeat of the Congress in Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi is frustrated. Not only this, the Congress in which the Congress is holding its session, could not win the election for 30 years. Difficulties are increasing for the Congress day by day. In such a situation, the strategy to compete with the BJP will have to be decided in front of the Congress.
Strategy will be made to compete with BJP
The Congress held a meeting of its working committee in Belagavi four months ago, which was held on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Congress session held under the chairmanship of Mahatma Gandhi. The Congress has chosen Mahatma Gandhi’s birthplace Gujarat to compete with the BJP. Congress officials are the best hope to get the assurance from the top leadership that the party is on the right path. Rahul-Kharge has taken a few steps and indicated, especially the steps to be adopted against the BJP.
Congress leaders are privately talking about the need to choose the battles of the BJP government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi instead of opposing everything and every work. In the Congress session, a clear stand can also be taken regarding how strong and how much it is to fight against the BJP. Apart from this, steps can be taken to make a strong strategy on how to face the BJP in the electoral fray. The reason for this is that in the states where the Congress directly competes with the BJP, the BJP’s hand is heavy.