With Sonia Gandhi’s recent re-election as the Congress chief for the fourth term, an AICC meeting is on the cards before Diwali while a Plenary session will be held before 20th December this year.

A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee amid indications that the AICC meeting could be held in some Northern state while the plenary could take place in Mumbai.

The metropolis had hosted the centenary celebrations of the Congress in 1985.

The Plenary could be a significant affair given the fact that the Congress was completing 125 years of its inception and had planned a series of regional conferences during the year which had to be cancelled due to various reasons including heavy rains.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi asked the party’s poll authority to complete the organisational elections wherever they are pending.

Party General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi told reporters that a decision on the venue and dates for the AICC meeting and the Plenary session have not yet been taken.

The CWC has now been converted into Congress Steering Committee following the re-election of Sonia Gandhi as party chief for the fourth term.

The election for the CWC will be held during the Plenary.

Last time a contest was witnessed for the CWC in 1997 Plenary at Kolkata when late Sitram Kesri was the party chief.

Gandhi took over as the Congress chief in April 1998.

The CWC decided that the party chief should constitute a small group of party leaders to go into the party constitution for giving suggestions for possible changes in keeping with the times.