After senior Congress leaders in Punjab brought their battle to the open, the district Congress committee presidents from across the state on Wednesday appealed the senior party leaders from the state to exercise restraint on the issue of leadership and leave it to party president Sonia Gandhi.
They said, the sustained campaign prompted more by personal prejudices and ambitions than any party interest, must not be seen as any articulation of the voice of grassroot workers who are concerned with more pressing matters like harassment, victimisation and discrimination at the hands of the government.
In a joint statement, the district presidents maintained that they have been constantly and continuously interacting with the party rank and file at the grassroots level who are concerned and worried about being victimised by the government.
They said, the way senior leaders have been raking up the issue in the media has only demoralised the party workers who have already started facing the Akali onslaught.
The district presidents said the party high command was already seized of the matter. Besides, it had set up a high-powered committee which is looking into the issues raised by different leaders from the state. “Parroting the same thing again and again is not going to lead to anything except for damaging the party,” they said while appealing the leaders to use their energies for articulating the problems of the Congress workers.