The 85th plenary session of the Congress is scheduled to be held in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur from February 24 onward, and apart from the top brass of the party, around 15,000 delegates have been invited to take part in the session.
The plenary session will discuss the roadmap for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Addressing a joint press conference, General Secretary KC Venugopal said that the session will be called ‘Haath Se Haath Jodo’ and will be attended by Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Sonia Gandhi.”Congress’ plenary session will be held in Raipur from February 24, 2023, onwards. It will be an important milestone on the journey towards the 2024 parliamentary elections.
Venugopal said that on February 24, there will be a steering committee meeting at which solutions will be presented to the drafting committee and approval will be given to the steering committee.”On February 24, the early session will start with a steering committee meeting, which will present solutions to the drafting committee and receive approval.” The agenda will be also finalised on Feb 24. “The actual plenary session will start early on February 25,” said Venugopal.
Party general secretary Tariq Anwar said the session will give a way forward for the party with respect to the state elections in 2023 and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
“We are going to carry forward the energy that we got from the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. “In this session, we are going to take up important proposals related to politics, youth, SC-ST, and social justice,” said Anwar.
Member of the Steering Committee, Kumari Selja, said that the venue of the session will be called Shaheed Vir Narayan Singh Nagar in honour of the eminent freedom fighter.
