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."Towards a More Competitive Party System in India", Ram Joshi and Kirtidev Desai, Asian Survey, Vol. 18, No. 11. (Nov., 1978), pp. 1091-1116. 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 Sources:
President Name Portrait Position in government Mallikarjun Kharge
Members S. No Member Portrait Position 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.noMemberPortrait Position1.Ajay Kumar Lalluex MLA,Former President of UPPCC Uttar Pradesh2.Rajeev ShuklaMP3.A. ChellakumarEx MP Lok Sabha4.Pratibha Singh Ex MP Lok Sabha5.Pawan Kumar Bansal ex MP, (Chandigarh)6.Veerappa Moilyex MP, (Karnataka)7.Harish RawatFormer Chief Minister of Uttarakhand8.Rajani Patil MP9.Harish ChaudharyMLA, Rajasthan10.Ramesh ChennithalaMLA, Kerala11.B. K. HariprasadMLC, Karnataka12.Manish TewariMP, chandigarh 13.Sukhjinder Singh RandhawaMP14.Deepender Singh HoodaMP, Haryana15.Krishna Allavaru 16.Girish Chodankar 17.Gurdeep Singh Sappal18.T. Subbarami Reddyex MP, Andhra Pradesh19.K Raju20.Manikrao ThakreEx MLA21.Chandrakant Handore MP Rajya Sabha, ex MLAMaharashtra22.Meenakshi Natarajanex MP, Madhya Pradesh23.Manickam TagoreMP24.Phulo Devi NetamMP, Chhattisgarh25.Damodar Raja NarasimhaCabinet Minister, Telangana26.Sudip Roy BarmanMLA, Tripura27.K. SudhakaranMP28.Akhilesh Prasad SinghMP29.Qazi Mohd NizamuddinMLA, Uttarakhand30.Saptagiri UlakaMP31.Vijay Inder SinglaEx MLA32.Kanhaiya Kumar33.Sachin Rao
Special Invitees
S. NoMember Portrait Position1.Alka Lamba President, All India Mahila Congress2.Vinod JakharPresident, NSUI3.Uday Bhanu ChibPresident, IYC4.Srinivas BVChief Organiser, Seva Dal5. Supriya ShrinateChairman, Social Media & Platforms6. Challa Vamshi Chand ReddyEx MLA7.Kodikunnil SureshMP8. Yashomati ThakurEx MLA9. Gidugu Rudra Rajuex President APCC10.Karan MaharaEx President UPCC11.Praniti ShindeMP12.M. M. Pallam Rajuex-MP13.Pawan Khera Chairman, Media & Publicity14.Vikar Rasool WaniEx President J&KPCC15.Naseem KhanEx MLA Maharashtra
See also Indian National Congress All India Congress Committee Pradesh Congress Committee
References
External links Official All India Congress Committee website