Kunal Shrivatsa
Early Times Report
jammu, Apr 2: Despite receiving a severe drubbing in the last Lok Sabha as well as assembly elections in JK, the Congress, it seems, hasn't yet learnt any lessons. The internal bickering in the party has grown more aggressive.
If Congress insiders are to be believed then the after effects of the reorganized Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) are already in the open as several leaders and workers, who have been ignored in the list of functionaries released on March 27 last, are in a state of despair as they feel cheated by the party high command despite serving the party for nearly two to three decades.
Party insiders told Early Times that those leaders who were sidelined are not only annoyed over their exclusion in the recently reconstituted state unit but they are more bitter over the fact that some leaders who joined the party in the recent past were assigned key posts.
"The party already marred by dissension and groupings would definitely encounter more rebellion as the reconstituted state unit has overlooked several deserving leaders who have remained associated with the party from their student life as they were active members of the NSUI while some of them began their political career with the Youth Congress yet they find no place in the list of functionaries," sources said.
"Persons like Gulchain Singh Charak, Vinod Mishra, Brij Mohan Sharma, Naresh Sharma, Shakeel Shah, Hukam Chand Sharma, Som Nath, Master Lal Chand, Ex MLA Billawar Thakur Puran Singh, Vinod Khajuria, Ashwani Khajuria, Surinder Singh Shingari, Arun Sharma, Jagdish Sapolia having Congress ideology in their roots have been dumped while outsiders like Faqir Nath, Dr Sat Pal, Manjit Singh and Mohammad Aslam Goni and few others who were alien to the party just few years back, have been adjusted as senior functionaries," they added.
Sources further informed that it is not only the rank outsiders who were showered with the responsibility of plump posts but there are leaders in the newly constituted PCC who bagged less than five thousand votes in the Assembly polls and giving more twist to the tale is the fact that some of the names included in the list got votes only in hundreds in Assembly elections yet they have also been given top posts.
"The height of the neglect could be gauged from the fact that experienced as well as well educated leaders got overshadowed by inexperienced and less literate leaders as in the newly constituted PCC there are names having the position of senior office bearers who are either only under-Matrics or are illiterates," sources maintained. |
