Sonia to take time to reshuffle AICC
Congress president Sonia Gandhi could take little more time to reconstitute the AICC but she nominated members to the Working Committee and the Central Election Committee without any delay.
A delay in reconstitution of the AICC is because of the Prime Minister’s statement that he wants to undertake a “more expansive exercise” (Cabinet reshuffle) after the Budget Session of Parliament, party insiders viewed.
Currently, seven Union ministers and the Maharashtra chief minister are holding duel charge. They are: Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mukul Wasnik, V. Narayanasamy and Prathivraj Chavan (general secretaries) and A.K. Antony, M. Veerappa Moily (CWC members in-charge of states), Jairam Ramesh (AICC secretary) and Dr C.P. Joshi (Rajasthan PCC chief).
The Congress chief has to decide whether a “one man one post” criterion should be implemented strictly or these persons be continued to be utilised in the organisation as well.
Mr Azad is in charge of the party affairs in Tamil Nadu going to the Assembly polls in the coming months while Mr Antony has been handling Maharashtra and Mr Moily has been handling Andhra Pradesh.
Besides, Mrs Gandhi is yet to nominate PCC presidents for Bihar, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa and Jammu and Kashmir units.
Barring Karnataka, the Congress in the Opposition-ruled states especially in the Hindi heartland has not been revived. While it has been facing a leadership crisis in Gujarat, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, the party has become weak in Andhra Pradesh.
And in Maharashtra, another key state, it has been lacking killer instinct.
According to the sources, the Congress chief could make necessary nominations suggesting that the organisation revamp could take place in phases.
Mrs Gandhi is said to have almost finalised the contours of the new AICC secretariat.
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