CWC 'very balanced', 'good mix' of youth and experience; Hyderabad meeting crucial: Sachin Pilot

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Sachin Pilot on Friday hailed the reconstituted CWC as «very balanced» and having a «good mix» of youth and experience, while asserting that the Hyderabad meeting of the party's highest decision-making body was crucial in view of the upcoming state polls. Pilot, who along with other new faces such as Shashi Tharoor found a place in the reconstituted Congress Working Committee (CWC) last month, said he has always fulfilled with utmost sincerity any role that has been assigned to him by the party but his «heart lies in Rajasthan» and that is where he «can add most value».
In an exclusive interview with PTI, Pilot said the Congress has to play a «leading role» in the INDIA bloc because it is the largest party of the alliance but asserted that everyone was being given mutual respect in the bloc.
It is not about who occupies which position of power or post, all those issues would be taken up at the appropriate time perhaps even after the Lok Sabha polls, Pilot said of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA).
Asked whether the Congress would play the role of the fulcrum of the opposition alliance as it did in the UPA, the former Union minister said everyone in the alliance has a role to play but the Congress is the largest party in Parliament among the bloc and in a democracy, numbers matter.
«Every constituent of INDIA is an important player and has a role to contribute.

It is not about individual leaders or parties, it is about the issues that bring everyone together. It is about protecting the constitutional bodies, about institutions having the freedom and independence which is so crucial, it is about the blatant misuse of agencies against the opposition and having a government that doesn't debate,