Changes continue in state Congress and after appointing Nandkumar Patel as new PCC chief in April 2011, the AICC has now started replacing the existing district Congress committee (DCC) presidents with new faces. In this series, the party’s national general secretary Janardan Dwivedi on Thursday announced names of eleven DCC presidents of which except one, the remaining ten have got the responsibility for the first time. In this list, the party has given reins of three districts to its female leaders.
Dwivedi’s announcement came after the party supremo Sonia Gandhi approved the proposed list of candidates on June 29. The list was prepared by the Patel and leader of Congress legislators’ party (CLP) Ravindra Choubey after they held discussion with the senior party leaders. Thereafter, the PCC general secretary incharge BK Hariprasada finalised the names to be included in the proposed list.
Patel, who assumed the office as PCC head on April 18, 2011, was upset with the performances of several DCC presidents and had apparently indicated that majority of them would not be repeated in his new team.
It was earlier expected that the party’s national leadership would announce new names of PCC-office-bearers and DCC presidents immediately after the Bastar Lok Sabha by-poll that held on May 8, 2011. But when the party lost the election, the AICC asked the state unit to forget new team and launch consistent campaigns against the BJP government.
This buttress the state Congress, the AICC also constituted three committees – coordination, monitoring and disciplinary and assigned separate responsibilities to each panel.
Meanwhile, the party bosses once again hinted that the reshuffle in the PCC would be done soon after statewide Congress awareness rallies (divisional level) against BJP government in Sarguja division (in Ambikapur city), Bilaspur division (Bilaspur city) and Raipur division (Raipur city).
Notably, the state unit’s working committee which comprises of 140 office-bearers has not been changed since 2004 when Motilal Vora was the PCC president. His successors – Dr Charandas Mahant and Dhanendra Sahu too kept the working committee unchanged. But Hariprasada, who replaced former state Congress incharge V Narayanasamy, clearly asked the Patel during his maiden Raipur visit to form a truncated working committee keeping the number of office-bearers not more than 41.
The only DCC president who has been kept intact is – Nazir Azhar from Koria while the ten other new DCC presidents are – Shyam Sundar Soni – Korba (City), Harish Parsai – Korba (Rural), Jagdish Mehar – Raigarh (City), Dilip Pandey – Raigarh (Rural), Arti Singh – Jashpur, RN Verma – Durg (City), Manohar Lunia – Jagdalpur (City), Naresh Thakur – Kanker, Shashikanta Rathore – Janjgir-Champa and Dhaneshwari Sahu – Dhamtari.
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