Ahead of the Congress’s three-day “Chintan Shivir” that will get underway in Udaipur on Friday, a panel of younger leaders appointed by social gathering president Sonia Gandhi has steered that the social gathering “rebrand” itself as a “considerably young organisation” and reorient its method and communication technique to attraction to kids.
The 430-odd delegates on the conclave have been divided into six teams. They will maintain simultaneous deliberations on the social gathering’s organizational and political challenges, and points associated to financial system, social justice, financial system, and youth and empowerment. These six teams have ready a raft of recommendations that shall be mentioned over two days earlier than the outcomes are distilled into an omnibus declaration on the ultimate day.
The youth and empowerment committee, headed by Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, has steered a whole “rebranding of the Congress as a considerably young organization with more and more youngsters at all levels as well as addressing issues affecting the youth”. Apart from it, the panel has proposed that fifty per cent of organizational posts ought to be reserved for these beneath the age of fifty and those that are under 40 years ought to be given extra consideration throughout ticket allocation for elections — from native physique polls to Assembly and parliamentary elections.
Another suggestion is to organize a “trained youth cadre” and reorient the social gathering’s communication technique, method and the problems its raises with a watch on the youth.
Organizational modifications mooted
Party leaders mentioned the conclave’s focus can be on reforming and restructuring the group with a time-bound motion plan because the challenges earlier than the social gathering have been “unparalleled and unprecedented”. While the leaders mentioned there can be requires former social gathering president Rahul Gandhi’s return to the helm of Congress, they identified that the management situation wouldn’t be the main target of the conclave because the election of a brand new president is scheduled to be held in August or September.
As reported by The Indian Express on Monday, the Mukul Wasnik-headed committee on group has proposed the revival of the Parliamentary Board mechanism. It has additionally steered implementing a “one family, one poll ticket” rule, the establishing of a devoted construction to handle elections, a cooling-off interval of three years for office-bearers in any respect ranges after a five-year time period, and permitting state items to have their very own structure with the approval of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).
Some of the Wasnik committee’s different proposals are establishing of middleman committees between the sales space and block ranges; 50 per cent reservation within the group for Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Class (OBC) and minority communities; intense coaching applications for social gathering staff in ideology and insurance policies of the social gathering; synergy between the social gathering’s communication, social media, knowledge analytics and analysis wings; and early resolution on alliances.
The organizational panel has additionally steered that the final our bodies of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) and the Pradesh Congress Committees (PCCs) ought to meet twice a 12 months, and the chief committees of the PCCs ought to meet as soon as each 4 months. Besides, it has known as for transparency in funding and proposed that the AICC ship observers to all Lok Sabha constituencies and the PCCs do the identical for Assembly seats. The observers, within the case of Lok Sabha seats, ought to report back to AICC General Secretary (Organisation).
The Udaipur declaration
Issues similar to polarisation, Centre-state relations, the function and progress of regional events, and the social gathering’s stand on alliances shall be mentioned threadbare on the “Chintan Shivir”.
“The declaration will have our position on issues and the action that we are going to take,” mentioned a senior chief. “We are towards, we’re involved, we’re frightened, all that has no which means. What we’re going to do about it’s what truly issues.”
A pacesetter concerned within the brainstorming train mentioned, “The mandate is to not make the ‘shivir’ a philosophical PhD-type doc. The mandate is to make actionable recommendations. It shall be an actionable declaration.”
A celebration chief mentioned the political context this time was completely different not like the “Chintan Shivirs” in Pachmarhi (1998), Shimla (2003), and Jaipur (2013). “The magnitude of the crisis that we are facing should not be underestimated. The crisis is unparalleled and unprecedented. We are in power in only two seats. Our strength in Parliament, both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha put together, is less than 100. So, cosmetic changes are not going to work. We have to make changes that are meaningful and not merely cosmetic,” added the social gathering purposeful.
While the “Chintan Shivirs” of the previous didn’t set any timelines, the Udaipur declaration will point out time-bound targets for structural modifications within the group in any respect ranges, mentioned the Congress chief, including that the social gathering must revive itself earlier than enthusiastic about gaining prominence in any potential anti-BJP alliance. “The message is evident. If the Congress is weak, any coalition of non-BJP forces can’t occur. But if the Congress is robust, the alliance too shall be sturdy.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
