Congress Working Committee fails to energise workers

Vijay Deo Jha Ranchi Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Even though the parliamentary election is fast approaching throwing a major challenge before the Jharkhand Congress to save its respective tally in the forthcoming election, it failed more or less to energise the party workers during the meeting of its ‘extended working committee’ held on last Saturday.

This is despite the party finally adding organisational restructuring and the creation of booth committees into ‘must do it’ list, the response on the part of the district heads of the party and workers were not encouraging.

Although the meeting benefited the party in some other way — the party workers had a chance to speak their mind on several issue including how to strengthen party and generate a dialogue between the top-rung party leaders and the workers as most of the party workers had their complaint against top party leaders for neglecting their views.

Reacting over the outcome of the meeting a senior party leader said that the meeting lost its real agenda and became defocussed in addressing the core issues. Adding further he said: “We must be honest in accepting the truth that party in Jharkhand lost its ideological mooring.”

Speaking on the sideline of the meeting another senior party leader said that the party would have to explain its position in the State. “Either You are in Opposition or term yourself as ruling party. You can not sit on the fence which the party has been doing right now,” he said.

The party workers appeared to be undecided over how to move in the election in absence of a clear-cut guideline added with a concern that with a weak organisation set up at grassroot level the Congress could hardly give a befitting reply to the NDA combine in the State during the election. About the booth committee the reports submitted by the district units of the party at least made clear that the party needed to do some more ground work before it takes on the NDA in the State.

Reacting over this, party spokesperson Alok Kumar Dubey who did not agree to this said, “The meeting gave a positive direction to the party workers. We are ready to face the challenge.”