Overview

• Delegates returned Raja, 76, to the top post after granting an exemption to the CPI’s 75-year leadership age limit.
• The party unveiled an 11-member national secretariat that includes AITUC’s Amarjeet Kaur and a 31-member executive committee, which leaders said were elected unanimously.
• Protests erupted on the congress floor when new leadership lists were read out, with Kerala’s Rajaji Mathew Thomas and Delhi leader Dinesh Varshney among those objecting to the age-limit waiver.
• K. Narayana, who is over 75, was also chosen to chair the Central Control Commission, reflecting further departures from the cap reported at the meeting.
• Congress resolutions called for restoring trade with Pakistan through Attari–Wagah, releasing prisoners who have completed sentences, intensifying ideological work against the BJP–RSS, and prioritising Left victories in upcoming elections in Bihar, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Kerala.