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New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) met on Friday and passed resolutions on three issues of national importance, including farmers’ protest, coronavirus vaccine and WhatsApp chat leaks of journalist Arnab Goswami.
The party also announced to hold polls for electing the new Congress president by June 2021.
Addressing a press conference, the party’s Central Election Authority headed by Madhusudan Mistry said the CWC has passed a resolution on farmers’ protest, saying the party would oppose the central government to take back the three new farm laws.
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New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) met on Friday and passed resolutions on three issues of national importance, including farmers’ protest, coronavirus vaccine and WhatsApp chat leaks of journalist Arnab Goswami.
The party also announced to hold polls for electing the new Congress president by June 2021.
Addressing a press conference, the party’s Central Election Authority headed by Madhusudan Mistry said the CWC has passed a resolution on farmers’ protest, saying the party would oppose the central government to take back the three new farm laws.
The party also adopted a resolution thanking the scientists for developing the Covid-19 vaccine in such a short period of time and appealed to the people to come forward for vaccination.
Another resolution passed by the party demanded an investigation by a Joint Parliamentary Committee into the purported WhatsApp conversations between Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) Partho Dasgupta.
‘Shocking insensitivity’ shown by govt against farmers: Sonia Gandhi
In her opening remarks, interim party president Sonia Gandhi hit out at the government over a host of issues.
She said there were “many pressing issues of public concern” that needed to be debated and discussed in the upcoming session of Parliament.
On the ongoing farmers’ agitation, she said the government had shown “shocking insensitivity and arrogance going through the charade of consultations”.