After A number of Ballot Defeats, Congress To Bear Large Organisational Reshuffle Now
AHMEDABAD: The Congress will undertake a “large” organisational reshuffle and grant extra powers to its district items, social gathering common secretary Ok C Venugopal mentioned on Tuesday. Sources mentioned the social gathering is prone to approve some modifications within the organisation, together with granting extra powers to the District Congress Committees (DCCs) and elevating the quota for SCs/STs/OBCs in any respect social gathering positions past 50 per cent. The quota choice was taken on the Raipur session of the social gathering.
The Congress can also be discussing the appointment of ladies and youths in 50 per cent social gathering positions, and which will go even past the restrict. The choice of getting girls and youths in half of social gathering positions was additionally a part of the Raipur declaration. Briefing reporters after the Prolonged Congress Working Committee assembly on the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Nationwide Memorial right here, Venugopal famous the social gathering has devoted this yr to a whole restructuring of its organisation and the problem was mentioned at size in the course of the assembly.
“We’re going to have a large organisational reshuffle, and there can be pointers for a similar. Our common secretaries and in-charges are on it,” Venugopal mentioned. He additionally confused that measures to empower the social gathering’s district unit chiefs can be rolled out quickly. “We now have already selected that. The difficulty of empowering DCC presidents and the duties and powers of the DCCs has been mentioned in varied boards. Common secretaries and in-charges have already permitted the proposals and we’re going to roll it out within the close to future,” he mentioned, replying to queries.
Venugopal mentioned the theme of the session is ‘Nyay Path: Sankalp, Samarpan and Sangharsh’ (Path of Justice: Decision, Dedication and Battle). He mentioned that within the Belagavi session, “we had already handed the decision on organisational restructuring of the Congress Celebration in 2025”. “We devoted this yr to the whole reform of the organizational construction. Right now, we additionally mentioned the problem,” he mentioned, including the Prolonged CWC has handed a decision that “our social gathering will stroll on the trail confirmed to us by Sardar Patel ji”.
“He stood up in opposition to the oppression of the British, preventing for the rights of employees and farmers. He rejected communal forces after Bapu’s (Mahatma Gandhi’s) assassination. He fought for an India the place everybody had basic rights and freedoms,” Venugopal mentioned. He added that the social gathering’s prime leaders vowed to embark on the “path of social justice” espoused by Sardar Patel. “Right now, as we embark on the trail of social justice, our Nyay Path follows the identical ideas laid down by Sardar Patel.” In his opening deal with on the assembly, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge asserted the social gathering’s declare to Sardar Patel’s legacy and accused the BJP and RSS of attempting to usurp it beneath a “well-planned conspiracy” in opposition to nationwide heroes.
He confused that the Congress was taking ahead the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and Patel. “Sardar Patel Saheb lives in our hearts, lives in our ideas. We’re taking his legacy ahead. We now have organised this CWC assembly in Ahmedabad at Sardar Patel Museum with this thought in thoughts. We pay our heartfelt tributes to him,” he mentioned.
Earlier within the day, AICC common secretary Sachin Pilot informed reporters that the Congress intends to create extra empowered district items with their presidents having enhanced accountability, duty and political power. He mentioned the social gathering would combat the upcoming elections with power and expressed confidence that the Congress and its supporting ideologies would come collectively to present the BJP and the NDA a tricky problem.
Briefing reporters outdoors the venue, Pilot mentioned, “The intention of the Congress president and the Chief of Opposition (Rahul Gandhi) is to create a extra empowered district unit.” “The accountability, the duty and the political power that we’ve thus given to the district presidents is ready to be enhanced,” the previous Union minister confused.
The ultimate final result can be determined after the conference on Wednesday however the intention of the Congress is to make the DCC presidents extra empowered than earlier than, Pilot mentioned, including the transfer was aimed toward increasing the social gathering’s attain in villages, divisions and cubicles. “The yr 2025 is the yr of the organisation to strengthen our employees, increase our social gathering ideology and to guarantee that the Congress reaches out in a mass contact programme via foot marches and door-to-door programmes,” he mentioned.
The social gathering desires to ship a transparent message, not simply to its opponents but in addition to its supporters and employees that the Congress won’t step again and combat aggressively each inside Parliament and out of doors, and ensure it wins the following political problem, Pilot mentioned. “Elections are fought to be received. We are going to combat the following few elections with power and I’m supremely assured that the Congress and its supporting ideologies will come collectively to present the BJP and the NDA a tricky problem,” Pilot mentioned.
He mentioned the decision handed on the finish of the session on April 9 can be named ‘Nyay Path’. “Tomorrow’s session will write a brand new chapter in historical past,” he mentioned The grand previous social gathering has introduced that the Ahmedabad Session can be themed “Nyaypath: Sankalp, Samarpan aur Sangharsh”, with greater than 1,700 elected and co-opted AICC members attending the principle conclave on April 9 on the banks of the Sabarmati river between the Sabarmati Ashram and Kochrab Ashram.
