Top Congress leaders attend CWC meet; focus on NRC, Rafale deal

Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : Top Congress leaders assembled here on Saturday for a meeting of the party’s Working Committee which discussed the party’s strategy on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Rafale deal.
The meeting was chaired by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, while former party chief and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi could not attend it, party sources said.
Other top party leaders, including former prime minister Manmohan Singh, A K Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ahmed Patel and Ashok Gehlot were also present at the meeting.
This is the second meeting of the newly-constituted CWC, the party’s highest decision-making body, under the presidentship of Rahul.
The party is working out its strategy for the NRC issue, over which the party is caught in a dilemma to take a proper position on the issue of illegal migrants into Assam.