Meet workers to prepare report on Congress future plan: Rahul Gandhi to General Secretaries

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today asked AICC general secretaries to meet party’s block and district level workers and prepare a report within two months on how to take the party forward.

Party sources said all All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretaries attended today’s meeting, which was part of Gandhi’s ongoing effort to strengthen the party following the Lok Sabha poll debacle.

In the past few months, Gandhi had held interactions with young and elderly party leaders from various states in groups to take their feedback on how to strengthen the party at the grassroots and make a turn around.

“The Congress Vice President has asked the general secretaries to meet the workers at block and district levels to get their feedback on how to take the party forward in terms of strength, ideology and other aspects.

“They have been given two months to prepare a report which would be submitted to the party and then a special AICC session would be held to discuss it,” a source said.

There is a view in the party that since the next general elections will be held five years from now, it is time for the party to focus on its organisation in states.

The defeat trail of Congress has not stopped since the Lok Sabha polls, which saw its tally dropping to an abysmal 44 from 206 in 2009. Barring the Assembly election results in some states a few months ago, there has been no silver lining for the party in the past six months.

The Congress Vice President had been meeting party leaders from various states in groups to take their feedback on how to strengthen the party at the grassroots and make a turn around. He has met around 400 such party workers so far.

“Rahul Gandhi has already met leaders in groups from most of the states. In the last two months, he held interactions with 300 to 400 workers. He asked us today to carry forward the same at district and block levels,” Ahmed said.

Gandhi asked the general secretaries to prepare a report within two months with feedback from block and district level workers to reinvigorate the party and widen its mass-base.

The deadline for membership enrolment for the party for the next organisational election too comes to end in February.

Today’s meeting came a day after BJP romped home in alliance in Jharkhand Assembly elections and put up an impressive show in Jammu and Kashmir. In both the states, Congress was in the ruling alliance.

Losses in Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand come soon after Congress’s debacle in two-party ruled states of Maharashtra and Haryana in October.

There is a view in the party that since the next general elections will be held five years from now, it is time for the party to focus on its organisation in the states.

The defeat trail of Congress has not stopped since the Lok Sabha polls, which saw its tally dropping to an abysmal 44 from 206 in 2009. Barring the Assembly election results in some states a few months ago, there has been no silver lining for the party in the past six months.