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CWC meet offers no solutions for Congress decay

The much-awaited meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the Congress party’s highest decision-making body, has turned out to be a spectacular non-event. Instead of announcing substantive organisational changes urgently needed for this near-moribund national opposition party, the CWC meeting reaffirmed the Gandhi family’s primacy over the Grand Old Party. It yielded a reiteration of Sonia Gandhi’s position as full-time president (though she has been an interim one since 2019) and a long-term deadline for organisational elections between August 21 and September 20 next year. Most remarkable has been the unctuous loyalist demand for Rahul Gandhi to take over from