The Congress’s resolution to arrange an “advisory group” of senior leaders drawn from the Congress Working Committee (CWC) to help the get together president and supply 50 per cent illustration to these under 50 years in any respect organizational ranges, together with the CWC, is being seen by insiders as a balancing act by the Gandhis to maintain each veterans and younger leaders completely happy.
The Udaipur Declaration adopted following the get together’s three-day brainstorming conclave within the metropolis in Rajasthan features a suggestion by its youth panel to order half the posts in Congress governments sooner or later for these beneath 50 years. The similar criterion additionally needs to be utilized whereas choosing ballot candidates, beginning with the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
The Declaration additionally mentions the youth panel’s suggestion to have a “retirement age” for all “elected posts”, together with in Parliament, Assemblies, and Legislative Councils.
“I have also decided to have an advisory group drawn from the CWC that would meet regularly under my chairpersonship to discuss and deliberate upon political issues and challenges before our party,” Gandhi stated on Sunday. “Of course, we do have the CWC that meets from time to time and that will continue. The new group is not, however, a collective decision-making body but will help me get the benefit of the vast experience of senior colleagues.”
With the choice to order half the posts at totally different organizational ranges for these youthful than 50, the CWC will see the exit of among the veteran leaders. But the get together is hard-pressed since younger leaders are pushing to be given a seat on the desk and there’s a demand for contemporary faces in any respect ranges to provide the get together a “youthful look”. At the identical time, the Gandhis are not looking for the veterans to really feel ignored because it might breed resentment.
With the Congress president emphasizing that the advisory group — it isn’t talked about within the get together structure and may be wound up any day — will not be a “collective decision-making body”, it’s being interpreted as a snub to the G-23 group of dissident leaders who’ve been pushing for collective decision-making as one of many reform measures.
In her speech, Sonia Gandhi made a particular point out of the suggestions of the group on organizational reforms, which was one of many six panels that convened on the conclave. “I wish to make a particular point out of the report of the organizational group since it’s the most instantly related. Some of its concepts have fashioned a part of the Udaipur Nav Sankalp Declaration that has simply been adopted. I guarantee you that the detailed suggestions of the group will likely be acted upon expeditiously,” she added.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
