Congress leaders fight for party’s district posts

Despite successive electoral defeats across the country, Congress leaders do not appear to have learnt a lesson, if we go by the ruckus created them for party posts on Thursday.

Leaders from erstwhile Karimnagar district, who came to attend the consultation process at Gandhi Bhavan in the city for setting up district committees, started quarrelling and accusing with each other over selection of a particular leader to head the district committees.

Irked by the unruly scenes, AICC secretary R.C. Kuntia criticised the Karimnagar district leaders for ditching the party by not properly organising the first public meeting of Congress president Sonia Gandhi in 2014, after the party-led Central government granted statehood to Telangana.

“You all promised to bring lakhs of people for the meeting of the Congress president in 2014, but ultimately it was a poor show with just 20,000. What sort of leaders you all are,” he said.

AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh, secretary, Telangana PCC chief N. Uttam kumar Reddy and others consulted leaders from north Telangana districts on Thursday over the constitution of new district committees due to reorganisation of districts.

Since almost all the erstwhile districts were divided into two to six new districts, the Congress had to appoint new DCC committees.

Apart from this, the state unit has to select two PCC representatives from each Assembly segment to vote in the intra party elections for the post of AICC president in October.

You all promised to bring lakhs of people for the meeting of the Congress president during 2014 elections, but ultimately it was a poor show with just 20,000. What sort of leaders you all are. — R.C. KUNTIA, AICC secretary