CWC meeting: Rahul gets mandate to form alliances with like-minded parties

CWC authorises Gandhi to constitute a committee to work out alliances with various national and regional parties to form a grand national alliance

The extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Sunday authorised Congress president Rahul Gandhi to forge an alliance with like-minded parties for the 2019 Lok Sabha election to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
 
The decision was taken at a meeting of the newly-constituted Congress Working Committee (CWC), Pradesh Congress Committee chiefs and Congress Legislature Party (CLP) members from various states.

The party also authorised Gandhi to constitute a committee to work out alliances with various national and regional parties to form a grand national alliance.