The newly constituted Congress Working Committee (CWC), at its first meeting in Hyderabad on September 16, welcomed the “continuing consolidation” of Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) and resolved to make its “an ideological and electoral success”.
Claiming that the Opposition bloc has rattled the Prime Minister and the BJP, the resolution said, “The CWC reiterates the Congress party’s resolve to make the INDIA initiative an ideological and electoral success so that our country is freed from divisive and polarising politics, the forces of social equity and justice are strengthened, and the people get a Union Government that is responsible, responsive, sensitive, transparent and accountable”.
The Congress party also made it clear that it would refuse to get drawn into the Sanatana Dharma debate and reiterated its stance of sarva dharma sambhava or respecting all religions. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, said a source, referred to the issue as a “distraction”. Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi is said to have stressed on protecting the constitutional values.
