NEW DELHI: The Congress task force meeting on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is under way at 15 GRG Congress War Room in New Delhi under the new party chief Mallikarjun Kharge. This is the task force’s first meeting after Kharge took charge as Congress president.
Members of the task force, which include P Chidambaram, Mukul Wasnik, Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal, Ajay Maken, Randeep Surjewala, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Sunil Kanugolu, arrived at 15 GRG Congress War Room for the meeting.
The Congress has constituted a ‘Task Force 2024’ for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Each member of the task force shall be assigned specific tasks related to organisation, communications and media, outreach, finance and election management. They shall have designated teams that will be notified subsequently.
Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party swept back to power in the 2019 General Elections. The party won 303 seats in the Lok Sabha, bettering the 282 seats it won in 2014. The Indian National Congress (INC) and its allies, who only won 44 seats in 2014, put up a stronger fight in 2019 with 53 seats, but were unable to make any meaningful gains.
Earlier, leaders like Sharad Pawar, Mamata Banerjee and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (renamed Bharat Rashtra Samithi) president K Chandrashekhar Rao have attempted opposition unity, but got no results. The BJP-led NDA government has been in power at the centre since 2014 and is serving its second term with PM Narendra Modi at the helm. The party is confident of winning the Lok Sabha election again in 2024.
On Sunday, the BJP held a meeting, chaired by general secretary B L Santosh, at the party’s headquarters in Delhi to prepare for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha polls. According to sources, during the meeting, the party reviewed the progress of all the ongoing programmes as well as the progress of the central government-run schemes across the nation.
The Congress is also gearing up for the upcoming Delhi Municipal Corporation election that is slated to be held on December 4. The Congress on Sunday issued a list of 250 candidates for the civic body polls in Delhi. The counting for the MCD polls will be done on December 7. (ANI)