Cong to organise workers’ training camps as poll prep

First camp to be held on Feb 24 at Mainpur

Monitoring panel to visit Dantewada, Bijapur on Feb 22 & 23

Raipur, February 13, 2012

To increase organisational activities as part of preparation for its mission 2013 and 2014, the Congress will organise workers’ training camps in 52 legislative assembly areas. A decision in this regard was taken during the meeting of party general secretaries and secretaries convened by PCC president Nandkumar Patel and CLP leader Ravindra Choubey at Congress Bhawan on Monday. The duo also convened separate meetings of party vice presidents, monitoring committee and disciplinary committee.

Discussing over the party strategy for next Vidhan Sabha and general elections, both Patel and Choubey sought inputs from general secretaries and secretaries regarding conduction of workers’ training camps. Since the general secretaries are incharges of Lok Sabha areas and secretaries having charges of Vidhan Sabha areas, the state unit leadership wanted them to play greater role consolidating the party in both urban and rural pockets.

In the meeting, it was decided that the first training camp for the workers would be organised at Mainpur under Bindranawagar legislative assembly area February 24. Thereafter, similar camps would be convened in 51 other legislative assembly constituencies.

While reviewing works of monitoring committee, Patel and Choubey asked the members to conduct next tour in Bastar division to scrutinise complaints of irregularities in Central schemes being implemented there. According to decision, the monitoring panel will visit Dantewada on February 22 and Bijapur on February 23.

During interaction with the party vice presidents, the duo once again asked them to tell how their vast experience could be utilised in Congress poll preparations. The meeting of disciplinary committee was focussed on discussion over re-induction of expelled leaders in the party.

The meetings were attended by party vice presidents - TS Singhdeo, Pushpa Devi Singh, Baijnath Chandrakar, members of disciplinary committee – Dhanendra Sahu, Renu Jogi, Ramsundar Das, Anturam Kashyap, US Singhdeo, Shiv Singh Thakur, Ramesh Warlyani (incharge secretary of the panel), members of monitoring committee – Arvind Netam, Satyanarayan Sharma, Ganeshshankar Bajpayee, Tarun Chaterjee, Ghanaram Sahu, Somprakash Giri, Chandraprakash Bajpayee, Fulodevi Netam, Yogesh Tiwari (incharge secretary of the panel), general secretaries – Arun Vora, Subhash Sharma, Bhupesh Baghel, Premsai Singh, Vidhan Mishra, Dr Shiv Kumar Daharia, Padma Manhar along with party spokespersons Mahendra Chhabda, Sushil Anand Shukla, etc.