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Congress Working Committee

Executive committee of the Indian National Congress (INC)

The Congress Working Committee (CWC) is the executive committee of the Indian National Congress. It was formed in December 1920 at Nagpur session of INC which was headed by C. Vijayaraghavachariar. The CWC is composed of senior party leaders and is responsible for taking decisions on important policy and organizational matters, as well as guiding and directing the party's activities and campaigns at the national level. It typically consists of fifteen members elected from the All India Congress Committee (AICC). The CWC is headed by the party president, who is elected by the members of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), the party's central governing body.

The Working Committee has had different levels of power in the party at different times. In the period prior to Indian independence in 1947, the Working Committee was the centre of power, and the Working President was frequently more active than the Congress President. In the period after 1967, when the Congress Party split for the first time (between factions loyal to Indira Gandhi and those led by the Syndicate of regional leaders including Kamaraj, Prafulla Chandra Sen, Ajoy Mukherjee, and Morarji Desai), the power of the Working Committee declined; but Indira Gandhi's triumph in 1971 led to a re-centralisation of power away from the states and the All-India Congress Committee and caused the Working Committee in Delhi to once again be the paramount decision-making body of the party. The centralised nature of Congress decision making has since caused observers in the states to informally describe instructions from Delhi as coming from the High Command.

Composition of Congress Working Committee

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President

Name	Portrait	Position in government
Mallikarjun Kharge	[[File:Shri Mallikarjun Kharge takes over the charge of Union Minister for Railways, in New Delhi on June 19, 2013 (cropped).jpg	left	frameless	75px]]	{{Ulist

Members

S. No	Member	Portrait	Position in government
1.	Sonia Gandhi	[[File:Sonia Gandhi 2014 (cropped).jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
2.	Rahul Gandhi	[[File:Rahul Gandhi.png	frameless	80x80px]]	{{Ulist
3.	A. K. Antony	[[File:AK Antony at Ponnani.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
4.	Ambika Soni	[[File:Ambika_Soni.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
5.	Abhishek Singhvi	[[File:Abhishek Manu Singhvi at the India Economic Summit 2008.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
6.	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	[[File:The Minister of State for Railways, Shri Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury addressing at the presentation of the National Awards for Outstanding Service in Railways, in Mumbai on April 16, 2013 (cropped).jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
7.	Ajay Maken	[[File:Ajay_Maken_at_NDTV_Sports_event.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
8.	Anand Sharma	[[File:Anand_Sharma_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_2012.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
9.	Jairam Ramesh	[[File:Jairam ramesh.jpg	105x105px]]	{{Ulist
10.	Gaikhangam Gangmei		{{Ulist
11.	Jitendra Singh	[[File:The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs & Sports, Shri Jitendra Singh addressing the media persons after his visit from Lausanne, Switzerland, in New Delhi on May 16, 2013.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
12.	Selja Kumari	[[File:Selja - Kolkata 2011-11-05 6516 Cropped.JPG	75px]]	{{Ulist
13.	Dr Lal Thanhawla	[[File:Lal_Thanhawla.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
14.	Mukul Wasnik	[[File:Mukul Wasnik in January 2010.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
15.	Charanjit Singh Channi	[[File:Charanjit Singh Channi.png	75px]]	{{Ulist
16.	Priyanka Gandhi Vadra		{{Ulist
17.	P. Chidambaram	[[File:Palaniappan Chidambaram - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011 (cropped).jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
18.	Randeep Surjewala	[[File:Randeep Surjewala.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
19.	N. Raghuveera Reddy	[[File:N. Raghu Veera Reddy.png	75px]]	{{Ulist
20.	Tariq Anwar	[[File:Tariq Anwar addressing the National Conference of State Ministers of Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries, in New Delhi on February 06, 2013.jpg	left	frameless	75px]]	{{Ulist
21.	Sachin Pilot	[[File:Sachin Pilot at the India Economic Summit 2010 cropped.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
22.	Tamradhwaj Sahu		{{Ulist
23.	Shashi Tharoor	[[File:Sasi Tharoor 2021 at Kollam.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
24.	Salman Khurshid	[[File:Salman Khurshid portrait (cropped).jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
25.	Digvijaya Singh	[[File:Digvijaya Singh (cropped).jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
26.	Bhupesh Baghel	[[File:Bhupesh Baghel.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
27.	Meira Kumar	[[File:Meira Kumar.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
28.	Jagdish Thakor		{{Ulist
29.	Ghulam Ahmad Mir		{{Ulist
30.	Avinash Pandey		{{Ulist
31.	Deepa Dasmunsi	[[File:The Minister of State for Urban Development, Smt. Deepa Dasmunsi addressing at the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding between EEPC India, CII & Kotra, in New Delhi on January 16, 2014.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
32.	Gaurav Gogoi	[[File:Gaurav Gogoi 2024.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
33.	Syed Naseer Hussain		{{Ulist
34.	Kamleshwar Patel	[[File:Kamleshwar patel bhaiya.jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
35.	K. C. Venugopal	[[File:K.C. Venugopal addressing at the Concurrent session – Young Achievers, at the 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas ‘Engaging Diaspora Connecting Across Generation’, in New Delhi on January 07, 2014 (cropped).jpg	75px]]	{{Ulist
36.	Balasaheb Thorat		{{Ulist

Permanent Invitees

S.no	Member	Portrait	Position
Ajay Kumar Lallu		ex MLA, Uttar Pradesh
Rajeev Shukla	[[File:RajeevShukla.jpg	75px]]	MP
A. Chellakumar		Ex MP Lok Sabha
Pratibha Singh		Ex MP Lok Sabha
Pawan Kumar Bansal	[[File:PawanKumarBansalChd.JPG	75px]]	ex MP, (Chandigarh)
Veerappa Moily	[[File:Veerappa Moily BNC.jpg	75px]]	ex MP, (Karnataka)
Harish Rawat	[[File:HarishRawat.jpg	75px]]	Former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
Rajani Patil	[[File:Rajani Patil official portrait.jpg	75px]]	MP
Harish Chaudhary		MLA, Rajasthan
Ramesh Chennithala	[[File:Ramesh Chennithala profile 02.jpg	75px]]	MLA, Kerala
B. K. Hariprasad		MLC, Karnataka
Manish Tewari	[[File:Manish Tewari.jpg	75px]]	MP, chandigarh
Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa	[[File:Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa.jpg	75px]]	MP
Deepender Singh Hooda	[[File:Indian Red Cross Society.jpg	75px]]	MP, Haryana
Krishna Allavaru
Girish Chodankar
Gurdeep Singh Sappal
T. Subbarami Reddy	[[File:T.Subbarami Reddy.jpg	75px]]	ex MP, Andhra Pradesh
K Raju
Manikrao Thakre		Ex MLA
Chandrakant Handore	[[File:MP Chandrakant Handore.jpg	75px]]	MP Rajya Sabha, ex MLAMaharashtra
Meenakshi Natarajan	[[File:Meenakshi Natarajan.jpg	75px]]	ex MP, Madhya Pradesh
Manickam Tagore	[[File:Manickam Tagore.jpeg	75px]]	MP
Phulo Devi Netam		MP, Chhattisgarh
Damodar Raja Narasimha	[[File:Damodara Rajanarsimha.jpg	75px]]	Cabinet Minister, Telangana
Sudip Roy Barman	[[File:Shri Sudip Roy Burman.jpg	75px]]	MLA, Tripura
K. Sudhakaran	[[File:K.sudhakaran.jpg	75px]]	MP
Akhilesh Prasad Singh	[[File:The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Agriculture, Dr. Akhilesh Prasad Singh addressing at the National Productivity Awards Ceremony for the Agriculture Sector, in New Delhi on May 24, 2007 (cropped).jpg	75px]]	MP
Qazi Mohd Nizamuddin		MLA, Uttarakhand
Saptagiri Ulaka	[[File:Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka.jpg	75px]]	MP
Vijay Inder Singla	[[File:Shri-Vijay-Inder-Singla.jpg	75px]]	Ex MLA
Kanhaiya Kumar	[[File:Kanhaiya Kumar.jpg	75px]]
Sachin Rao

Special Invitees

S. No	Member	Portrait	Position
Alka Lamba	[[File:AlkaLambaNew.jpg	75px]]	President, All India Mahila Congress
Varun Choudhary		President, NSUI
Uday Bhanu Chib		President, IYC
Lalji Desai		Chief Organiser ,Seva Dal
Supriya Shrinate	[[File:Supriya shrinate during press conference.jpg	75px]]	Chairman, Social Media & Platforms
Challa Vamshi Chand Reddy		Ex MLA
Kodikunnil Suresh	[[File:കൊടിക്കുന്നിൽ സുരേഷ്.jpg	75px]]	MP
Yashomati Thakur		Ex MLA
Gidugu Rudra Raju		ex President APCC
Karan Mahara	[[File:Karan Mahara.png	75px]]	Ex President UPCC
Praniti Shinde		MP
M. M. Pallam Raju	[[File:The Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju addressing at the release of the National Achievement Survey - Class III Children Achievement Report, in New Delhi on February 28, 2014.jpg	75px]]	ex-MP
Pawan Khera		Chairman, Media & Publicity
Vikar Rasool Wani		Ex President J&KPCC
Naseem Khan		Ex MLA Maharashtra

References

"Towards a More Competitive Party System in India", Ram Joshi and Kirtidev Desai, ''Asian Survey'', Vol. 18, No. 11. (Nov., 1978), pp. 1091-1116.
"Indian National Congress".
"Analysis: New Congress Working Committee - Focus on Polls, Not Rocking Boat".
(20 August 2023). "Shashi Tharoor, Sachin Pilot included in revamped Congress Working Committee". The Hindu.
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