‘Cong not trying to weaken MVA… we have some issues which will be resolved’: Prithviraj Sathe

Prithviraj Sathe, normal secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee, has been promoted as secretary of the All India Congress Committee and co-incharge of Assam Congress. Sathe hails from Pimple Nilakh space of Pimpri-Chinchwad. His father Prabhakar Sathe has served because the mayor of Pimpri-Chinchwad.
Congress ministers within the MVA authorities are continuously complaining about “injustice”. Some occasion leaders are additionally concentrating on the federal government. Is the Congress attempting to destablise the federal government and finally pull it down?
The three occasion MVA authorities has come to energy on the premise of the Common Minimum Programme. The authorities is being run as per the CMP. Congress ministers had some points which they raised. Solutions may be discovered to any downside. I’m positive the senior management of the three events will sit collectively and discover out an answer to the problems raised.
Public notion is that the Congress is attempting to weaken the federal government by repeatedly elevating private points somewhat than public points.
In reality, the Congress is attempting to strengthen the federal government in whichever method attainable. It is mistaken to say that the Congress is attempting to weaken the federal government. In my common interactions with the general public, I get the sensation that the Congress has performed every part proper to this point.
When will the Congress get a full-time nationwide president?
That course of is on the best way. Once the organisational elections are held, the Congress will get a full-time president. The preparations for getting a full-time president for the occasion are being performed.
Why is Rahul Gandhi reluctant to change into president?
I’m not ready to reply this query….
NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s identify is doing the rounds as UPA chairman. Will the Congress conform to it?
The resolution relating to the UPA chairman can be taken by all its constituents. Even in any other case, these are solely speculations. The NCP has additionally denied that. We will cross the bridge after we come to it.
In the state too, the Congress doesn’t have a full-time president. Incumbent president Balasaheb Thorat is a minister as nicely. Besides, he isn’t often known as a mass chief. Will the Congress get a preferred chief as state president?
We have already got a state president in Balsaheb Thorat. I do not know whether or not there’s a plan to alter the president. This query may be finest answered by our nationwide president Sonia Gandhi and H Ok Patil who’s taking care of Maharashtra.
Senior Congress chief Prithviraj Chavan appears to have been sidelined after he was amongst those that had written a letter to the occasion chief?
I don’t assume he has been sidelined. Recently, he was given duty of conducting a serious occasion by the occasion.
What’s your tackle BJP’s troll military?
The BJP is spending near Rs 250 crore yearly on the trolly military. It has appointed a number of youths for the aim and created ghost accounts. It is for the individuals and media to be aware of such unethical practices aimed toward misguiding the individuals, abusing opponents, parading lies, making false guarantees. The Congress will give a befitting reply however not within the method the BJP is doing.

Coming again to your hometown, Pimpri-Chinchwad Congress too doesn’t have a president and has not carried out any membership drive for lengthy. Your feedback.
The Congress will quickly get a president for Pimpri-Chinchwad. And we’re additionally going to launch a membership drive. There are some names like these of Tukaram Bhondve, Kailas Kadam, Ashok More that are doing the rounds. The occasion will take a name on them. Besides, we may even launch a drive to reveal the wrongdoings by the BJP-ruled PCMC. We will expose the corruption in PCMC functioning and the way the BJP has taken individuals for a journey.
Will the Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena combat the civic elections collectively?
There remains to be time for civic elections. An acceptable resolution can be taken in coming months.
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