Cong aims to strengthen its roots thru training camps

Raipur, February 21, 2012

With an objective to defeat ruling BJP in next legislative assembly and general elections in 2013 and 2014, the Congress has first planned to bolster its roots by honing up skills of its workers through training camps. The party, which is continuously targeting the BJP government both in Vidhan Sabha and in public meetings, now feels that the workers too needed some pep talks from the senior leadership to concentrate in poll preparations. In this connection, the first workers’ training camp of the Congress will be organised at Mainpur under Bindranawagar legislative assembly area on February 24.

The highlight of the meeting will be the participants – both trainers and trainees. While the trainees will be selected workers from each polling booth of the legislative constituency, the trainers will range from national leaders like the AICC general secretary and incharge of state Congress BK Hariprasada and state unit’s incharge secretary Bhakt Charandas to state unit’s top brasses including PCC president Nandkumar Patel and CLP leader Ravindra Choubey.

There will be host of other participants in the form of trainees in the first training camp including PCC office-bearers, executive members, members of monitoring and disciplinary committees, office-bearers of YC, NSUI, Mahila Congress, Seva Dal, all cells and morchas.

The agenda of inviting these leaders will be to make them acquainted with the training methodology so that they could adopt it in similar camps to be organised in 51 other legislative assembly areas in coming months.

According to information, Patel and Choubey will try to remain present in all the camps. The party also reserves the plan to rope in a couple of more national leaders at specific training camps.

Patel got the baton of sate unit in April 2011. At that time, the party was battered and segregated. The high command gave him responsibility to first unite the senior leaders by bridging the gap between powerful factions and then to frame strategy for intensifying party activities at root level by ensuring workers’ participation.

To help Patel, the national leadership engaged Hariprasada, Choubey, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Charandas Mahant and AICC treasurer Motilal Vora. This team of ‘the five’ framed three-pronged strategy for the workers. The strategy was supposed to be implemented in three phases.

In the first phase, the party initiated the idea of organising district-level workers’ meeting and it received huge response everywhere. The second phase of the strategy was to organise Vidhan Sabha-level workers’ meeting and this too proved to be an effective method to unite all the workers.  

Now, in the backdrop of continuous district and Vidhan Sabha level meetings, the party will impart training its selected workers who would then propagate the message of the party in their regions.