Congress workers hail dissolution of state unit

Tribune News Service

Shimla, November 20

Hailing the party high command’s decision to dissolve the Pradesh Congress Committee district and block units, Congress workers and leaders today demanded that the new office-bearers and leaders taking charge of the PCC units should be of “public repute, clean image and should have a fighting spirit to take on political might of the BJP”.

They said the party needed to put its act together, bury “rivalries, groupism and false egos” to revive the party. “Bigwigs such as Virbhadra Singh, Anand Sharma, Kaul Singh Thakur and Sukh Ram must rise up to their stature and put in place an organisation where there is no place for bickering and false egos that have harmed the party badly in the state,” a leader said.

“It is because of these internal fights that the BJP has flourished in the state, while Congress has hit a new low as far as winning the state assembly and Lok Sabha elections are concerned,” he said.

State Congress president Kuldeep Singh Rathore said AICC president Sonia Gandhi had dissolved the entire state executive, 17 organisational units and 90 block units in the state. “The party high command has reposed full faith in me to reconstitute the units considering that the 10 months of party track record under me has gone down well with the high command,” he claimed.

Rathore claimed that the Jai Ram Thakur government was on a weak footing as it had failed on all fronts. “The government is ruled by bureaucracy in the state and from the Centre through a remote control,” he claimed. He said he would consult all senior leaders while constituting the new office-bearers to strengthen the party at grassroots level. “There is no place for groupism in Congress and workers who have credential, party loyalty, public standing and fighting spirit to carry forward the party agenda will get responsibility at all levels,” he said.

‘Sonia has faith in me’ 

AICC president Sonia Gandhi has dissolved the entire state executive, 17 organisational units and 90 block units in the state. The party high command has reposed full faith in me to reconstitute the units considering that the 10 months of party track record under me has gone down well with the high command. Kuldeep Singh Rathore, HPCC Chief