State Congress still hovers around old tasks
No new decision taken in PCC meeting
Raipur, February 18, 2013
PCC’s Monday meeting at Congress Bhawan again ended with routine decisions. The state Congress president Nandkumar Patel and CLP leader Ravindra Choubey were expected to come up with new guidelines after their recent one-to-one talks with party’s national vice president Rahul Gandhi, but the two merely repeated old versions of their inputs that were part of previous PCC meetings.
The principal opposition has been prominently raising all burning issues for more than one year. For this, the Congmen chalk out strategy in PCC meetings. Besides, they also discuss over party’s upcoming assembly-level workers’ training camps – manthan.
Once again, the major agendas in PCC’s Monday meeting were – tehsil-gherao programmes, manthan camps, membership campaign, monthly meetings of DCC and BCCs, and how to beef up organisation at booth-level. The meeting concluded with the decision to organise manthan camps in Dongargaon, Dongargarh and Durg on Febraury 26, 27 and 28 respectively.
During the entire meeting, Gandhi’s explicit message for the PCC office-bearers was missing. Patel and Choubey did not share anything significant regarding their Delhi trip with the party general secretaries.
The duo also seemed refraining from talking on coordination, monitoring and disciplinary committees.
The coordination committee was constituted to support the PCC in its activities. The panel’s job was to upgrade guidelines for the state unit so that the organisation could enact accordingly.
However, the committee members barely meet – in fact, the last panel meeting was only the second after its constitution. In this scenario, the PCC office-bearers never get any instruction or suggestion from the coordination committee. Rather, there is a big gap between the panel and the organisation in terms of communication.
The monitoring committee too was claimed to be a sharp tooth of the party as its radical job was to keep an eye on implementation of Centrally-sponsored works in state. Initially, the panel travelled extensively across the state and claimed to have unearthed massive grafts in MNREGA, PMGSY and other Centrally-funded schemes. After, panel chairman Arvind Netam left the party, its activities slowed down.
The state unit also got frustrated when no action was taken despite its repeated complaints to union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh pertaining to corruption in MNREGA works in Chhattisgarh. Eventually, the monitoring committee is in defunct condition. There was no agenda for this panel’s activities in PCC meeting on Monday.
The disciplinary committee has by far failed to take apt action against those habitually go against partylines. The stalwart workers allege that the panel spares the seniors and targets the juniors. Patel and Choubey did not felt it important to discuss over making the panel effective prior to polls as indiscipline usually grows in the party during such period.
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