With the Congress excessive command deciding to gauge the opinion of occasion MLAs and MLCs in Maharashtra for a attainable revamp of the state unit, state Congress president Balasaheb Thorat on Monday rushed to Delhi and had a gathering with AICC normal secretary in control of Organisation Ok C Venugopal.
There is unease within the Thorat camp over the model of functioning of AICC in-charge of the state H Ok Patil and it’s learnt that the state Congress chief has supplied to step down if the state of affairs doesn’t enhance. Venugopal, nonetheless, maintained it was a routine assembly.
Sources mentioned the excessive command has set in movement the method for a reshuffle within the state unit. As a part of the train, Patil is to journey to Mumbai Tuesday to satisfy MLAs and MLCs individually.
It is learnt that Thorat’s workplace was not concerned in organising the conferences. Sources near Thorat mentioned that bypassing him on this method diminishes his authority, some extent he’s learnt to have raised with the occasion excessive command.
Thorat presently holds three positions – PCC chief, Congress Legislature Party chief and Revenue minister within the Uddhav Thackeray-led authorities.
It is learnt that there’s stress on the excessive command to comply with the one particular person, one publish precept on this case. Also, his nephew Satyajeet Tambe is Maharashtra Youth Congress president and his rivals within the occasion have complained concerning the focus of energy in a single household.
It can be learnt that his rivals have complained to the excessive command that below Thorat’s management, the Congress just isn’t getting its due within the ruling coalition with Shiv Sena and NCP.
Congress’s Maharashtra leaders say Thorat should surrender not less than two posts.
And intense lobbying has begun after the Congress management signalled that there shall be adjustments quickly. There are many aspirants for the PCC president’s publish, amongst them Assembly Speaker Nana Patole, and state ministers Vijay Waddetiwar and Nitin Raut. Former Lok Sabha MP and AICC in-charge of Gujarat Rajeev Satav’s identify can be being talked about.
Thorat’s go to to Delhi additionally comes at a time when an argument is raging in Maharashtra over the proposal to rename Aurangabad as Sambhajinagar. Thorat has opposed the proposal, which has been on the agenda of the Sena.
There are additionally points concerning “attempts to micromanage” by Patil, mentioned a supply.
“The release of a letter by Congress president Sonia Gandhi to Chief Minister Thackeray seeking measures for socially backward classes at a press conference in Delhi by Patil had not gone down well with the NCP and the Sena. Patil also indulged in some plain-speaking at the Congress foundation day event. While he did not name Sena or NCP chief Sharad Pawar who had made some remarks on Rahul Gandhi, he said no one should poke their nose into the affairs of the Congress and that those not part of UPA should not create confusion. At the end of the day, it is Thorat who has to face the alliance leaders,” a senior Congress chief mentioned.
Both Patil and Thorat couldn’t be contacted.
Before Ashok (Bhai) Jagtap’s nomination as Mumbai Congress president final month, Patil had carried out an identical train of interacting personally with corporators and occasion’s block unit presidents.
He is now learnt to have drawn up an in depth 100-day programme for the Mumbai occasion unit. He has nominated Chandrakant Handore as state in-charge of the Mumbai occasion affairs.
Handore has been requested to deal with coordination between the state and Mumbai occasion models and provides common updates to Patil.
