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Bharat Jodo Yatra-2
Rahul plans Oct 2 launch from mahatma’s birthplace
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has determined to launch the second leg of his massively profitable Bharat Jodo Yatra. Sources mentioned it would start from Porbandar, the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, this October 2. The Yatra will begin from Gujarat and move by at the least 4 poll-bound states – Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram — earlier than concluding on the holy Parshuram Kund within the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. So far, it’s unclear if the Yatra may also contact Telangana, additionally scheduled for elections this December.
A group of high Congress leaders, together with Ok C Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh, is finalising the route in session with Rahul Gandhi and leaders of the states the Yatra will move by. Initially, the Yatra was to culminate on the Kamakhya Devi Temple at Guwahati. But for the reason that Manipur turmoil has hit the complete northeast, the Yatra was prolonged to the area’s different states to specific solidarity with the folks. The Bharat Jodo Yatra has been one of the vital profitable mass contact programmes the Congress occasion has undertaken in a long time.
Part of the credit score for the occasion’s success within the Karnataka meeting election has been given to the Yatra, which went by the southern state for twenty-one days, touching scores of villages, cities and cities. On the traces of the primary leg of the Yatra that went on for 5 months, the Bharat Jodo-2 is prone to go on for 4 months and finish with the Parshuram Kund Mela, often known as the Kumbh of the Northeast, attended by hundreds from throughout the nation on Makar Sankranti in January.
CWC reconstitution
Congress finds Udaipur Declaration powerful to implement
The Congress occasion’s Nav Sankalp (new resolve) declaration adopted on the Chintan Shivir in Udaipur on May 15, 2022, has turn out to be the most important obstacle to reconstituting the Congress Working Committee, the occasion’s highest decision-making physique. The occasion mentioned in its Udaipur Declaration, “It is within the organisation’s curiosity to restrict the time period of a place to 5 years in order that new folks get a chance. Not solely this, bearing in mind the demographics of India, you will need to make sure that 50% of the workplace bearers in Congress Working Committee, Pradesh Congress Committees, District Congress Committees, Block Congress Committees and Mandal Congress Committees are beneath the age of fifty.
Each of those models should additionally replicate social actuality. Just and truthful illustration of Dalits, adivasis, backward lessons, minorities and ladies ought to be ensured. The precept of one-person-one-post ought to be adopted.” According to sources, the occasion is discovering it tough to get appropriate candidates beneath fifty for the CWC. Top occasion leaders have had many rounds of conferences on this topic, however the structure of the CWC has been inordinately delayed.
The Udaipur Declaration had mandated that “all the vacant positions at the Block, District, State and National level will be filled in the next 90 to 180 days…” It has been over eight months since Mallikarjun Kharge was elected as Congress president in October 2022 and 5 months for the reason that AICC plenary at Raipur ratified his election and authorised him to appoint the CWC, however a choice is but to be taken on the problem.
Bharat Jodo Yatra-2
Rahul plans Oct 2 launch from mahatma’s birthplace
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has determined to launch the second leg of his massively profitable Bharat Jodo Yatra. Sources mentioned it would start from Porbandar, the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, this October 2. The Yatra will begin from Gujarat and move by at the least 4 poll-bound states – Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram — earlier than concluding on the holy Parshuram Kund within the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. So far, it’s unclear if the Yatra may also contact Telangana, additionally scheduled for elections this December.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
A group of high Congress leaders, together with Ok C Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh, is finalising the route in session with Rahul Gandhi and leaders of the states the Yatra will move by. Initially, the Yatra was to culminate on the Kamakhya Devi Temple at Guwahati. But for the reason that Manipur turmoil has hit the complete northeast, the Yatra was prolonged to the area’s different states to specific solidarity with the folks. The Bharat Jodo Yatra has been one of the vital profitable mass contact programmes the Congress occasion has undertaken in a long time.
Part of the credit score for the occasion’s success within the Karnataka meeting election has been given to the Yatra, which went by the southern state for twenty-one days, touching scores of villages, cities and cities. On the traces of the primary leg of the Yatra that went on for 5 months, the Bharat Jodo-2 is prone to go on for 4 months and finish with the Parshuram Kund Mela, often known as the Kumbh of the Northeast, attended by hundreds from throughout the nation on Makar Sankranti in January.
CWC reconstitution
Congress finds Udaipur Declaration powerful to implement
The Congress occasion’s Nav Sankalp (new resolve) declaration adopted on the Chintan Shivir in Udaipur on May 15, 2022, has turn out to be the most important obstacle to reconstituting the Congress Working Committee, the occasion’s highest decision-making physique. The occasion mentioned in its Udaipur Declaration, “It is within the organisation’s curiosity to restrict the time period of a place to 5 years in order that new folks get a chance. Not solely this, bearing in mind the demographics of India, you will need to make sure that 50% of the workplace bearers in Congress Working Committee, Pradesh Congress Committees, District Congress Committees, Block Congress Committees and Mandal Congress Committees are beneath the age of fifty.
Each of those models should additionally replicate social actuality. Just and truthful illustration of Dalits, adivasis, backward lessons, minorities and ladies ought to be ensured. The precept of one-person-one-post ought to be adopted.” According to sources, the occasion is discovering it tough to get appropriate candidates beneath fifty for the CWC. Top occasion leaders have had many rounds of conferences on this topic, however the structure of the CWC has been inordinately delayed.
The Udaipur Declaration had mandated that “all the vacant positions at the Block, District, State and National level will be filled in the next 90 to 180 days…” It has been over eight months since Mallikarjun Kharge was elected as Congress president in October 2022 and 5 months for the reason that AICC plenary at Raipur ratified his election and authorised him to appoint the CWC, however a choice is but to be taken on the problem.
