In search of lost momentum, Congress to hold national session in Ahmedabad on April 8-9

New Delhi: The Congress will hold its crucial national session in Ahmedabad on April 8 and 9 to discuss its future course at a time the main opposition party accuses the ruling BJP of posing challenges to the country with anti-people policies and a "relentless" attack on the Constitution.

The AICC session will start with an Extended Congress Working Committee meeting on the first day followed by a delegate session on April 9 in the Gujarat capital. The decision to hold the Session in Gujarat was taken at the Congress Working Committee meeting in Belagavi on December 26, 2024.

Party president Mallikarjun Kharge will chair the meetings, which will be attended by former presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and Congress chief ministers among others.

“The upcoming Session will serve not only as a platform for crucial deliberations but also as a reaffirmation of the Congress' collective resolve to address the concerns of the common people and present a strong alternative vision for the nation,” Congress General Secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal said.

The Session comes at a crucial juncture when the Opposition, especially Congress, has lost the momentum it gathered after the Lok Sabha polls following the electoral reverses in Maharashtra, Haryana and Delhi.

However, the party hopes to enter into an aggressive mode with a politically loaded focus on Gujarat, the land of Mahatma Gandhi and from where its principal rival Narendra Modi comes from. Congress was ousted from power in Gujarat 30 years ago.

Congress, which has described 2025 as an year of organisational revamp, has already initiated the exercise with changes in some state units and bringing in new faces as General Secretaries and in-charges.

A meeting of party General Secretaries and in-charges last week chalked out a plan making district committees the pivot of organisational revamp. The Session may also see discussion about effective election management.

At the Session, the party leadership is also expected to give more clarity on its fight on the electoral reform front and the fight against the Modi government and the RSS. It may also give final touch to its ‘Samvidhan Bachao Rashtriya Padayatra’ across the country.

It is also to be seen whether the central leadership would go for further revamp in organisation.