Taking the baton of Congress’ revival in her palms, occasion president Sonia Gandhi has arrange one other inside group — the empowered motion group 2024 — to handle the political challenges it faces. This comes after a committee, arrange by Gandhi to deliberate on the presentation made by election strategist Prashant Kishor, submitted its report.
The group — whose composition is but to be introduced — may even put together the technique for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Kishor has, recently, given a sequence of shows to the occasion management, suggesting the revival plan amid the unabated ballot debacles.
Sonia Gandhi additionally determined to convene a ‘Chintan Shivir’, a three-day brainstorming session from May 13-15 in Udaipur, the place occasion leaders from throughout the nation will talk about inside points confronting it and provide you with options to galvanise the organisation.
Gandhi additionally constituted six coordination panels for drafting papers and main discussions on the problems of political and organisational significance, social justice, financial system, farmers and youth throughout the three-day brainstorming conclave.
While Mallikarjun Kharge will lead the panel on political points, Bhupinder Singh Hooda will head the committee on agriculture and farmers. Mukul Wasnik will spearhead the coordination panel for organisational issues. She has included most of the G 23 leaders, who’ve been insisting on an overhaul of the organisation, in these panels.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala instructed reporters that Gandhi will represent the Empowered Group quickly to plot a complete technique for the 2024 basic elections. Asked if any choice was made on Kishor’s induction into the occasion, Surjewala was evasive. “Whenever the group is constituted, you will know who is part of it,” he responded tersely.
A bit of the Congress has reservations over Kishor’s entry into the occasion, significantly after the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), an organisation he based, signed an settlement with Telangana’s ruling TRS for the subsequent meeting elections. The Congress has adversarial relations with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi within the state.
AICC pointsman for Telangana Manickam Tagore had reacted sharply to Kishor’s assembly with Chief Minister Okay Chandrasekhar Rao and different TRS leaders on Saturday and Sunday earlier than the deal was introduced. “Never trust someone who is friends with your enemy,” Tagore tweeted on Sunday. Kishor has been insisting he’s now not related to the I-PAC.
The selections by the Congress aimed toward reviving the occasion have been taken at a gathering of senior leaders who additionally mentioned the plan offered by Kishor. “The Congress president received a report from the eight-member group on April 21. Today, she discussed the report with the group, and based on the discussions, the Congress president has decided to constitute an ‘Empowered Action Group-2024’ in order to address the political challenges ahead,” Surjewala mentioned.
The assembly was held on the 10, Janpath residence of Sonia Gandhi, the place senior leaders together with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Ambika Soni, Okay C Venugopal, Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik, Digvijaya Singh, Jairam Ramesh and P Chidambaram have been amongst these current.
During the assembly that lasted for over three hours, Gandhi mentioned the suggestions with the members of the group. These eight leaders comprised the group which explored methods to revive and rejuvenate the occasion forward of the meeting elections in some states and the subsequent Lok Sabha polls, and submitted their report with suggestions to the Congress president on April 21.
“The Congress president has decided to convene the ‘Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir’ of the Indian National Congress in Udaipur on May 13, 14 and 15, 2022, where about 400 Congressmen and women from every state will participate,” Surjewala mentioned.
The focus of the deliberations can be on the present political and financial scenario and the challenges they pose to our society and the nation, he mentioned. Surjewala mentioned the ‘Chintan Shivir’ may even deliberate on the broad technique of the Congress for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
“Issues regarding the welfare and well-being of farmers and farm labourers, and the trampling of the rights of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, OBCs, non secular and linguistic minorities and girls, social justice and empowerment and youth may even be mentioned intimately.
“In addition, matters relating to organisational restructuring and strengthening will be deliberated,” a celebration assertion mentioned.
Among the six coordination panels constituted by Sonia Gandhi for making ready background notes and main discussions throughout the Chintan Shivir, is the political panel headed by Kharge. It contains Ghulam Nabi Azad and Shashi Tharoor, the members of G 23, moreover Ashok Chavan, Uttam Kumar Reddy, and Gaurav Gogoi.
The coordination panel for organisational issues has Mukul Wasnik, one of many signatories to the letter written by G 23 leaders to Sonia Gandhi in search of a management overhaul, as convener. Its members embrace Ajay Maken, Tariq Anwar, Ramesh Chennithala, Randeep Surjwala, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Netta D’souza and Meenakshi Natarajan.
Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, one other member of the G 23, has been made the convener of the coordination panel on farmers and agriculture, with T S Singhdeo, Shaktisinh Gohil, Nana Patole, Pratap Bajwa, Arun Yadav, Akhilesh Prasad Singh, amongst others as members.
The panel on Economy contains P Chidambaram (convener), Anand Sharma, Siddharamaiah, Sachin Pilot, Manish Tewari, Rajeev Gowda, whereas that on Social Justice has Salman Khurshid (convener), Meira Kumar, Digivijaya Singh, Kumari Selja, and the committee on youth has Amarinder Singh Warring (convener), B V Sriniwas, Neeraj Kundan, Krishna Byra Gowda, Krishna Allavaru, amongst others.
Many of the G 23 leaders have been adjusted in these panels together with Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor and Akhilesh Prasad Singh.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”