This session, a milestone in the party’s 139-year history, comes as the Congress grapples with electoral setbacks and gears up for high-stakes assembly polls later this year.
AICC theme: Justice, resolve, and resistance
Titled “Nyaypath: Sankalp, Samarpan, Sangharsh” (Path of Justice: Determination, Commitment, Struggle), the two-day event begins with an extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on April 8 at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial, followed by the main AICC gathering on April 9 at the Sabarmati riverfront.
The All India Congress Committee session’s theme is “Nyaypath: Sankalp, Samarpan, and Sangharsh.” This will be the tagline for the upcoming AICC session. The event is scheduled to take place on April 8-9, 2025 at Sabarmati riverbank in Ahmedabad.
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AICC key agendas and strategic roadmap
Roughly 1,725 elected and co-opted members — including MPs, senior leaders, Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chiefs, and office bearers — are expected to attend, according to PTI.
The session also holds symbolic weight, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s party presidency and the 150th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel — both iconic leaders from Gujarat.
This is the sixth AICC conclave in Gujarat and the third in Ahmedabad since the party’s inception in 1885 — a state where Congress once thrived but has long struggled to regain traction.
Strategic agenda: Rebuilding from the roots
A consolidated resolution is expected to address political, economic, social, international, and organisational issues.
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Key priorities include empowering District Congress Committees (DCCs), decentralising candidate selection, and enforcing accountability among office bearers — echoing the Udaipur Declaration and Belagavi Conclave’s focus on grassroots revival. Congress has designated 2025 as the “Year of Organisational Empowerment.”
Congress leader Sachin Pilot, speaking on April 6, highlighted the ongoing generational shift within the party. “This transition is essential to make the party more representative of backward classes, youth, women, and minorities,” he told PTI, emphasising performance reviews and a clean-up of underperforming leadership.
Pilot also underscored the need to empower DCCs in financial oversight and campaign mobilisation, signalling a pivot toward a more decentralised structure.
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Policy resolutions: From quotas to unemployment
The Drafting Committee, meeting on April 7, is preparing resolutions on pressing national concerns including inflation, unemployment, education reform, and the extension of SC/ST/OBC quotas to the private sector.
The party is also expected to flag concerns over electoral integrity — from voter rolls to Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) — and call for heightened grassroots vigilance. Issues like population-based delimitation, UGC draft regulations, MSP for farmers, and youth joblessness are also likely to figure prominently.
Gujarat in focus: Reclaiming lost ground
Congress General Secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal and Gujarat in-charge Mukul Wasnik have confirmed the attendance of top leaders, including Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
The Ahmedabad session reaffirms the party’s effort to reclaim relevance in Gujarat, once a Congress bastion, now a long-lost frontier. Rahul Gandhi, widely seen as the party’s de facto leader, is expected to drive discussions on caste census, raising reservation caps beyond 50%, and measures to empower marginalised communities.
A test of will and reform
While Congress showed sparks of momentum in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, subsequent defeats in Haryana, Maharashtra, and Delhi have tempered that optimism. The upcoming session is being seen internally as a test of the leadership’s ability to walk the talk on reform.
With the Modi government nearing one year into its third term, Congress is sharpening its opposition stance, accusing the ruling party of undermining democratic institutions and pushing anti-people policies.
As elections loom in Bihar this year and in Kerala, West Bengal, Assam, and Tamil Nadu in 2026, the Ahmedabad session could prove to be a crucial launchpad for the Congress — either for revival or reckoning.
(With agency inputs)
