The Congress is set to sound the poll bugle in Telangana by holding the first meeting of the newly constituted Congress Working Committee in Hyderabad on September 16, which will be followed by a public rally and an outreach programme in all the Assembly constituencies, attended by members of the highest decision making body of the party.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has convened a meeting of the newly constituted CWC in Hyderabad on September 16. The next day, in the morning, a meeting of the extended CWC will be held in which all the members of the panel, state Congress presidents and Congress Legislature Party presidents, which includes the party's four chief ministers, will be present.
The CWC meeting on September 17 will be followed by a public rally in Hyderabad or a nearby place. The rally will be addressed by Kharge, Chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party Sonia Gandhi, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders of the party.
According to a senior Congress leader, Y.S. Sharmila, daughter of late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who recently met Sonia and Rahul, could attend the rally on September 17. A merger of Sharmila's party, Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Telangana Party, with the Congress is known to be a done deal.
The Congress' efforts to turn the first meeting of the newly formed CWC into an event, especially in poll-going Telangana, are evident. What makes this clear is the party's plans to follow up the CWC meeting with a major outreach programme that involves the leaders who belong to the topmost decision-making body of the party fanning out into all the 119 assembly constituencies of the state.
After the rally on September 17, Kharge will flag off a cavalcade of CWC members, PCC presidents and CLP leaders who will visit the assembly constituencies for a night stay on that day. The leaders are required to interact with local leaders and workers and stay in the house of any Congress worker in the assembly segments allotted to them on the night of September 17.
On September 18, the party has planned to hold a workers' meeting in every assembly seat that will be followed by door-to-door distribution of five guarantees and a chargesheet against the K. Chandrashekar Rao government. The leaders will have a community lunch with influencers that day.
On the evening of September 18, the leaders will take part in a Bharat Jodo march that will culminate at either a Gandhi statue, an Ambedkar statue or a statue dedicated to Komaram Bheem.
