New Delhi, December 20:
The Congress is pushing forward with modifications in its organizational management after yesterday’s assembly with the dissidents with an overhaul in management in 4 states — Telangana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
So far, Telangana Congress President Uttam Kumar Reddy has resigned taking accountability for poor efficiency in Hyderabad native polls. Gujarat Congress President Amit Chavda has additionally resigned after the get together’s poor efficiency in Gujarat by polls.
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, who’s the state get together president, additionally holds CLP chief’s put up. Mr Nath was stated to play a key position in bringing concerning the high management’s assembly with G-23 — because the rebels who sounded the primary word of dissidence have been dubbed.
On Saturday, the Congress had made modifications in Mumbai Regional Congress Committee. Balasaheb Thorat, who’s the Maharashtra Congress president, can also be the chief of Maharashtra Congress Legislature Party
The get together’s interim president Sonia Gandhi has appointed three All-India Congress Committee (AICC) secretaries every for Assam and Kerala, the place Assembly polls are due early subsequent 12 months.
The newly appointed secretaries will help the overall secretaries in-charge of the 2 states — Jitendra Singh for Assam and Tariq Anwar for Kerala.
Yesterday, Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met the Congress dissidents in a primary of a sequence of conferences to be held over the subsequent 10 days. The assembly was step one in the direction of reconciliation after months of inside feud over the management problem.
While the highest management have agreed for organizational elections, Rahul Gandhi’s assertion on the assembly — that he’s “ready to work for the party as all desire” — is seen as a sign of his return because the get together chief.
On Friday, high Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala stated “99.9 per cent” leaders within the Congress needed Rahul Gandhi to return because the Congress chief. The dissidents, nevertheless, had remained agency on holding elections for each put up from high to backside.
In August, a gaggle of 23 leaders had written an explosive letter, pointing to the drift in get together management and stated they needed a full-time, “active and visible leadership” and collective decision-making.
Over the previous couple of years, the Congress has suffered a number of electoral defeats and has even seen states the place it shaped governments — Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh
