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Ahead of the assembly elections, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday reconstituted the party’s apex decision-making body, Congress Working Committee (CWC). The new CWC has 39 regular members, 32 permanent invitees, including some in-charges of the state, and 13 special invitees including presidents of the Youth Congress, and the Mahila Congress among others.

Shashi Tharoor, Sachin Pilot, Manish Tewari and several other Congress leaders were inducted into the Congress Working Committee. Apart from Tharoor, the party has included former union minister Anand Sharma and also made Manish Tewari and Veerappa Moily permanent invitees.

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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday thanked party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress central leadership for inducting him as a full member of the apex decision-making body of the party. He emphasised that he was grateful and humbled to the part of the major institution.

“I am honoured by the decision of the Indian National Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and the Congress central leadership to make me a full member of the Congress Working Committee...I am deeply humbled and grateful to be a part of this major institution alongside my valued colleagues,” Tharoor said, as quoted by news agency ANI.

The Congress MP also appreciated the party workers for their commitment. “I have to say that none of us can truly accomplish anything without the lakhs of committed party workers who are the lifeblood of the party”, he added.

While Congress leader Sachin Pilot who often loggerheads with party colleagues and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot expressed his gratitude towards the party’s central leadership for inducting him as a member of the working committee.

He also promised to strengthen the ideology of the party and take it to the people more forcefully.

Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Pilot wrote, "I express my gratitude towards respected Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, CPP Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and former president Rahul Gandhi for making me a member of the Congress Working Committee. We will strengthen the traditions, policy and ideology of the Congress and take it more forcefully to the people.”

Congress leader Alka Lamba also expressed her gratitude towards party chief Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, and the top leadership of the party after being inducted into the Congress working committee.

"There are tears of happiness in my eyes at this time - my heart is filled with joy - after 30 years of political struggle and journey, today once again I have been able to win the trust of the top leadership of the party. I express my heartfelt gratitude to Congress president respected Kharge ji, Sonia Gandhi ji, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi ji, organization general secretary KC Venugopal ji - and also to all those colleagues who always supported me. I will try my best to live up to your expectations," she wrote on X.