Earlier last week, the INDIA Bloc added two more members to its already 19-member Campaign Committee taking the total to 21. The new entrants were Tiruchi Siva of DMK and Mehboob Beg of PDP.
The source said that the leaders are also likely to discuss the Women's Reservation Bill during the meeting. However, senior leaders remained tightlipped over the issues being taken up in the meeting
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday constituted the party's Central Election Committee with 16 members including himself and former party chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Addressing a news conference, he said the Congress party leadership ought to implement what it had promised in Telangana in all the Congress-ruled states including Karnataka and Rajasthan if it was sincere on the welfare and development of the Dalits and tribal communities.
In an open letter addressed to Kharge, Sravan listed out Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao's initiatives for the socio-economic empowerment of Dalits and tribals in Telangana over the last nine years.
Meanwhile, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has said that the reduction in the price of cooking gas per cylinder is nothing but a lollipop by the union government before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge condemned the incident of a class teacher making other children thrash a student on the basis of religious discrimination.
He also alleged that the proposed amendment of the RTI Act under the guise of the data protection law is "a cowardly attack on the right to information by an authoritarian government".