Odisha: Senior Congress leaders search monetary help for ULB candidates

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Several senior leaders of the Congress are apprehensive in regards to the destiny of the get together within the city physique polls scheduled on March 24 after the worst-ever ends in the zilla parishad (ZP) elections through which the get together was worn out in as many as 18 districts.

Congress efficiency within the simply concluded panchayat elections cropped up within the State Election Committee assembly for the city native physique (ULB) polls on Wednesday. The situation of economic help to the candidates was raised by a number of the members on the assembly headed by the chief of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) Narasingh Mishra.

Vice-president of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) and Kantabanji MLA Santosh Singh Saluja, who’s a member of the committee warned that the get together will face the identical destiny within the ULB elections if it doesn’t present sufficient monetary help to the candidates.

Saluja stated that lack of sources together with cash and absence of high leaders from campaigning have been main causes behind the downhill slide of the get together within the panchayat elections. “BJP governments were there in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand in 2017 and they had provided enough financial support to the saffron party candidates during the previous election. However, Congress candidates did not get any support during this panchayat elections though the party has governments in both the states now,” he added.

Meanwhile, Congress has authorised the presidents of the District Congress Committees (DCCs) to resolve candidates for the ULB elections. In case of any dispute, they’ve been requested to coordinate with the OPCC.