The Congress is holding an prolonged session the Congress Working Committee (CWC) – the social gathering’s highest decision-making physique – and a rally in Belagavi, Karnataka on Thursday and Friday. The occasion commemorates the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi presiding over the Congress’s historic Belgaum (now Belagavi) session because the social gathering president in 1924.
The Congress high brass, together with its chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, together with CWC members and senior social gathering leaders from throughout the nation, will attend the two-day occasion.
The leaders are anticipated to debate social gathering’s future technique on the occasion.
Why Belagavi?
After his launch from jail in February 1924 following a surgical procedure, Mahatma Gandhi was sad over the shortage of unity between Hindus and Muslims throughout the freedom wrestle. He went on a 21-day quick from September 18 to October 8 that yr to “bridge” this divide. He additionally needed to handle the problem of rampant factionalism within the Congress social gathering.
Congress MP KC Venugopal mentioned the occasion is being held to have fun the centenary of the 1924 session of the social gathering. Venugopal referred to as it a “historic occasion” which is able to see the participation of round 200 leaders.
“Mahatma Gandhi introduced his deal with in Belgaum mainly on non-violence, non-cooperation as a method to realize political freedom, the elimination of untouchability, selling unity between communities, the necessity to deal with socio-economic disparity and reinforce the precept of justice and equality. These have been the contents of Gandhi ji’s speech in 1924. The Belgaum session turned the bedrock of India’s freedom motion,” he mentioned.
Solely Session Presided by the Mahatma
It was the one session of the Congress social gathering presided over by Mahatma Gandhi because the social gathering chief. Gandhi was Congress president between December 1924 and April 1925.
The session was attended by a number of senior Congress leaders together with Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Sarojini Naidu, and Khilafat motion leaders Muhammad Ali Jauhar and Shaukat Ali, amongst others.
The Congress social gathering has referred to as this prolonged Congress Working Committee Assembly at Belgavi a ‘Nav Satyagrah Bethak’. The assembly will likely be held on the similar venue the place Mahatma Gandhi took over the presidency of the Indian Nationwide Congress. “The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has accomplished all of the preparations for this historic session. Together with the CWC members, round 200 leaders will likely be attending the session,” Venugopal mentioned.
What’s on the agenda?
The assembly will begin December 26 at 2:30 pm at Mahatma Gandhi Nagar. The primary day of the session could be held on the Veera Soudha, the venue of the 1924 session. On the second day, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi sanctioned by the Karnataka authorities will likely be unveiled on the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha – the state Meeting in Belagavi.
“On the twenty seventh morning, at 11:30 am, the ‘Jai Bapu-Jai Bhim-Jai Sanvidhan’ rally will likely be held in Belgavi. MPs of Congress and AICC functionaries and lakhs of Congress employees will likely be taking part in that,” Venugopal mentioned.
Venugopal mentioned that the CWC assembly will talk about the motion plan of the Congress social gathering for the subsequent yr and undertake two resolutions.
“The assembly will deliberate upon the crucial challenges dealing with the nation underneath the BJP rule together with financial inequality, erosion of democracy and assault on Constitutional establishments. That is going to be a landmark programme of INC to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s presidency as a president of the Congress,” he mentioned.
Why does the occasion matter for Congress?
Within the current political circumstances, the Congress wants a resurgence prefer it did in 1924, a celebration chief informed The Indian Categorical. “We’re hopeful that it makes some vital purposeful adjustments and will get again to profitable methods,” the chief mentioned.
All India Congress Committee (AICC) basic secretary in-charge of Karnataka, Randeep Surjewala, in the meantime alleged that BJP’s fashion of functioning is ‘related’ to the East India Firm.
“Each social gathering president and LoP within the Lok Sabha have described the BJP because the kin of the East India Firm. The BJP’s fashion – concentrating wealth in a couple of arms, exploiting the poor and searching down upon oppressed lessons like SCs, STs, OBCs and minorities – is much like what the East India Firm did,” he informed The Indian Categorical.
The Belgaum session turned the bedrock of India’s freedom motion.
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