Cong to intensify agitation against govt in 2012

Raipur, January 02, 2012

The Congress has decided to increase its agitations against government in 2012. For this, protest movements at state, Vidhan Sabha and block levels would be launched by the partymen throughout the year. The decision was taken by the party during its meeting held at Congress Bhawan on Monday. Besides this, three more meetings were organised at party’s state office including disciplinary, monitoring and NSUI state executive meets.

The first meeting was convened jointly by PCC president Nandkumar Patel and CLP Leader Ravindra Choubey. The meeting started at 12 pm and lasted for over two hours. During the meeting the party reviewed its previous year’s performance and chalked out strategy to grill the government in 2012.

The members decided to launch massive membership campaign. Patel delegated responsibility to increase party domain to the general secretaries. The party claims to have five lakh members at present in the state and expects to reach seven lakh in 2012.

At 2 pm, the meeting of disciplinary committee was convened in which the members discussed whether to take back the expelled leaders and workers who rebelled during previous Assembly and general elections. The panel members has shortlisted a couple of names whom unanimity was evolved to take them back. Later, they submitted the list to Patel.

At 4 pm, the meeting of monitoring committee was convened by chairman Arvind Netam. In the meeting, the members chalked out programmes of the committee for 2012.

Also, the NSUI’s first state executive meeting was organised at Congress Bhawan. Patel, who was especially present on the occasion, gave significant tips to the newly elected members to raise issues related to students.

The first meeting was attended by party vice presidents - TS Singhdeo, Baijnath Chandrakar, Kawasi Lakhma, general secretaries – Devvrat Singh, Arun Vora, Subhash Sharma, Fulodevi Netam, Bhupesh Baghel, Dr Shiv Kumar Daharia, Ramesh Warlyani, Vidhan Mishra, Dr Premsai Singh Tekam, executive members – Uday Mudliyar, Deepak Dubey and PCC’s chief spokesperson Shailesh Nitin Trivedi. In the meetings of disciplinary and monitoring committees, state unit head was present along with the panel members.