Congress Working Committee


The Congress Working Committee 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. The CWC is headed by the party president, who is elected by the members of the All India Congress Committee, 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, 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
NamePortraitPosition in government
Mallikarjun Kharge

Members
S. NoMemberPortraitPosition in government
1.Sonia Gandhi
2.Rahul Gandhi
3.A. K. Antony
4.Ambika Soni
5.Abhishek Singhvi
6.Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
7.Ajay Maken
8.Anand Sharma
9.Jairam Ramesh
10.Gaikhangam Gangmei
11.Jitendra Singh
12.Selja Kumari
13.Dr Lal Thanhawla
14.Mukul Wasnik
15.Charanjit Singh Channi
16.Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
17.P. Chidambaram
18.Randeep Surjewala
19.N. Raghuveera Reddy
20.Tariq Anwar
21.Sachin Pilot
22.Tamradhwaj Sahu
23.Shashi Tharoor
24.Salman Khurshid
25.Digvijaya Singh
26.Bhupesh Baghel
27.Meira Kumar
28.Jagdish Thakor
29.Ghulam Ahmad Mir
30.Avinash Pandey
31.Deepa Dasmunsi
32.Gaurav Gogoi
33.Syed Naseer Hussain
34.Kamleshwar Patel
35.K. C. Venugopal
36.Balasaheb Thorat

Permanent Invitees

S.noMemberPortraitPosition
1.Ajay Kumar Lalluex MLA, Uttar Pradesh
2.Rajeev ShuklaMP
3.A. ChellakumarEx MP Lok Sabha
4.Pratibha SinghEx MP Lok Sabha
5.Pawan Kumar Bansalex MP,
6.Veerappa Moilyex MP,
7.Harish RawatFormer Chief [Minister of Uttarakhand]
8.Rajani PatilMP
9.Harish ChaudharyMLA, Rajasthan
10.Ramesh ChennithalaMLA, Kerala
11.B. K. HariprasadMLC, Karnataka
12.Manish TewariMP, chandigarh
13.Sukhjinder Singh RandhawaMP
14.Deepender Singh HoodaMP, Haryana
15.Krishna Allavaru
16.Girish Chodankar
17.Gurdeep Singh Sappal
18.T. Subbarami Reddyex MP, Andhra Pradesh
19.K Raju
20.Manikrao ThakreEx MLA
21.Chandrakant HandoreMP Rajya Sabha, ex MLAMaharashtra
22.Meenakshi Natarajanex MP, Madhya Pradesh
23.Manickam TagoreMP
24.Phulo Devi NetamMP, Chhattisgarh
25.Damodar Raja NarasimhaCabinet Minister, Telangana
26.Sudip Roy BarmanMLA, Tripura
27.K. SudhakaranMP
28.Akhilesh Prasad SinghMP
29.Qazi Mohd NizamuddinMLA, Uttarakhand
30.Saptagiri UlakaMP
31.Vijay Inder SinglaEx MLA
32.Kanhaiya Kumar
33.Sachin Rao

Special Invitees

S. NoMemberPortraitPosition
1.Alka LambaPresident, All India Mahila Congress
2.Varun ChoudharyPresident, NSUI
3.Uday Bhanu ChibPresident, IYC
4.Lalji DesaiChief Organiser,Seva Dal
5.Supriya ShrinateChairman, Social Media & Platforms
6.Challa Vamshi Chand ReddyEx MLA
7.Kodikunnil SureshMP
8.Yashomati ThakurEx MLA
9.Gidugu Rudra Rajuex President APCC
10.Karan MaharaEx President UPCC
11.Praniti ShindeMP
12.M. M. Pallam Rajuex-MP
13.Pawan KheraChairman, Media & Publicity
14.Vikar Rasool WaniEx President J&KPCC
15.Naseem KhanEx MLA Maharashtra