Cong delays zonal meets in view of verdict
Keeping in view the sensitive Ayodhya verdict, scheduled to come on September 24, the Congress on Tuesday decided to postpone its zonal conferences to mark the 125th anniversary of the party. The two conferences — east and north zones — were schedule to take place on September 25 and 27 respectively.
Though officially announcing the party decision to postpone the conferences, All India Congress Committee media department chairman and general secretary (Organisation) Janardhan Dwivedi attributed it to continuing rains in both the regions, sources revealed that it was decided in the backdrop of the scheduled Ayodhya verdict.
The conference in east zone was to be held in Kolkata on September 25 and the north on September 27 in Mohali.
The Congress president Sonia Gandhi had to inaugurate both the conferences.
“The party high command was of the view that at the time of politically sensitive verdict, senior leaders should stay put in the national capital and be focused on the emerging situation after the judicial pronouncement,” sources said.
When asked if the party has decided on new dates, Mr Dwivedi said, for north zone no date has been fixed. In case of east zone, the conference could take place only after Durga Puja, he added.
East zone includes poll-bound Bihar, as also Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar. The north zone includes Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh.
The country has been divided into five zones for the celebrations and there would be one zonal conference in each of them.
An AICC plenary is likely to be Mumbai by the year-end to mark the completion of 125 years of the party’s formation.
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