Congress core group

The Congress Core Group (also known as Congress Core Committee) is a group of top politicians in the Indian National Congress party.[1][2][3] It was chaired by the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi.

History

It was formed in 2004 to help the UPA government.[4] The first group consisted of Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, A. K. Antony, Arjun Singh and P. Chidambaram.[5] The group met every week to take stock of the situation and decide on important issues. The Committee was finally dissolved in June 2019. [6]

The members

In 2013, the core group committee had only 10 members

References
  1. Congress Core Committee to take final call on Telangana
  2. Congress working committee to take final call on Telangana: Botsa Satyanarayana
  3. Congress core group meets to discuss RTI amendments, Telangana Archived 2013-07-20 at Archive.today
  4. http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/53182/
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Rahul will remain our chief, say Congress leaders". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
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