Bhubaneswar: As the Congress begins its two-day all-India session from Tuesday in Ahmedabad after a hiatus of 64 years, senior party leaders from Odisha are also participating the mega event.
Party sources said Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Bhakta Charan Das and party’s state in-charge Ajay Kumar Lallu are in Ahmedabad to attend the two-day event. Leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) Rama Chandra Kadam has also travelled to Ahmedabad for the crucial session.
The senior leaders are also attending the extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting being held on the first day of the two-day all-India session.
The party is holding the extended CWC meeting at Sardar Patel Memorial in Shahibaug on Tuesday and the AICC session on the “banks of Sabarmati” on Wednesday.
Congress leaders from across the country have converged in Ahmedabad in Gujarat – a state which it has not won in three long decades – and brainstorm over the party’s immediate political course over the next two days.
The hope is to shed the listlessness and gloom that has engulfed the party after back-to-back Assembly election routs, which followed a self-declared and self-projected Lok Sabha election high.
The Congress has been out of power in Gujarat since 1995 when Sonia Gandhi was yet to enter politics then. The last time an AICC session was held in Gujarat was over six decades ago, in 1961, in Bhavnagar.
