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TheCongress Working Committee (CWC) is theexecutive committee of theIndian National Congress. It was formed in December 1920 at Nagpur session of INC which was headed byC. 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 theAll 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 toIndian 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 toIndira Gandhi and those led by the Syndicate of regional leaders includingKamaraj,Prafulla Chandra Sen,Ajoy Mukherjee, andMorarji 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.[1] The centralised nature of Congress decision making has since caused observers in the states to informally describe instructions fromDelhi as coming from theHigh Command.
President
| Name | Portrait | Position in government |
|---|---|---|
| Mallikarjun Kharge | .jpg) |
Members[5]
| S.no | Member | Portrait | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ajay Kumar Lallu | ex MLA,Uttar Pradesh | |
| 2. | Rajeev Shukla |  | MP |
| 3. | A. Chellakumar | ExMP Lok Sabha | |
| 4. | Pratibha Singh | ExMP Lok Sabha | |
| 5. | Pawan Kumar Bansal |  | ex MP, (Chandigarh) |
| 6. | Veerappa Moily |  | ex MP, (Karnataka) |
| 7. | Harish Rawat |  | FormerChief Minister of Uttarakhand |
| 8. | Rajani Patil |  | MP |
| 9. | Harish Chaudhary | MLA,Rajasthan | |
| 10. | Ramesh Chennithala |  | MLA,Kerala |
| 11. | B. K. Hariprasad | MLC,Karnataka | |
| 12. | Manish Tewari |  | MP,chandigarh |
| 13. | Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa |  | MP |
| 14. | Deepender Singh Hooda |  | MP,Haryana |
| 15. | Krishna Allavaru | ||
| 16. | Girish Chodankar | ||
| 17. | Gurdeep Singh Sappal | ||
| 18. | T. Subbarami Reddy |  | ex MP,Andhra Pradesh |
| 19. | K Raju | ||
| 20. | Manikrao Thakre | ExMLA | |
| 21. | Chandrakant Handore |  | MP Rajya Sabha, ex MLAMaharashtra |
| 22. | Meenakshi Natarajan |  | ex MP,Madhya Pradesh |
| 23. | Manickam Tagore |  | MP |
| 24. | Phulo Devi Netam | MP,Chhattisgarh | |
| 25. | Damodar Raja Narasimha |  | Cabinet Minister,Telangana |
| 26. | Sudip Roy Barman |  | MLA,Tripura |
| 27. | K. Sudhakaran |  | MP |
| 28. | Akhilesh Prasad Singh | .jpg) | MP |
| 29. | Qazi Mohd Nizamuddin | MLA,Uttarakhand | |
| 30. | Saptagiri Ulaka |  | MP |
| 31. | Vijay Inder Singla |  | Ex MLA |
| 32. | Kanhaiya Kumar |  | |
| 33. | Sachin Rao |
| S. No | Member | Portrait | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Alka Lamba |  | President,All India Mahila Congress |
| 2. | Varun Choudhary | President,NSUI | |
| 3. | Uday Bhanu Chib | President,IYC | |
| 4. | Lalji Desai | Chief Organiser ,Seva Dal | |
| 5. | Supriya Shrinate |  | Chairman, Social Media & Platforms |
| 6. | Challa Vamshi Chand Reddy | ExMLA | |
| 7. | Kodikunnil Suresh |  | MP |
| 8. | Yashomati Thakur | ExMLA | |
| 9. | Gidugu Rudra Raju | ex PresidentAPCC | |
| 10. | Ganesh Godiyal |  | ExMLA |
| 11. | Praniti Shinde | MP | |
| 12. | M. M. Pallam Raju |  | ex-MP |
| 13. | Pawan Khera | Chairman, Media & Publicity | |
| 14. | Vikar Rasool Wani | Ex PresidentJ&KPCC | |
| 15. | Naseem Khan | Ex MLAMaharashtra |
The Congress has not held internal elections for CWC for nearly 20 years, with the last elections held in 1998.[8] In 2017, theElection Commission of India (ECI) ordered it to hold internal elections[9] but as of 2020, no elections were held.[10] When Congress was trying to forge an alliance with ideologically oppositeShiv Sena in Maharashtra in 2019, Congress leaderSanjay Nirupam publicly urged Sonia Gandhi to dissolve the CWC, stating "they cannot be trusted anymore".[11][12]
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