Kharge tellsCongress office-bearers they will be held accountable for future election results
The Hindu
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge emphasizes accountability and strengthening party organization in a meeting with AICC office-bearers.
After a series of setbacks in recent Assembly elections, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) put stress on strengthening the organisation and said that party office-bearers would be held “accountable” for future election results in States under their charge.
Addressing All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretaries and in-charges, including those appointed last week, at a meeting held at Indira Bhavan, the party headquarters, Mr. Kharge stressed the need to promote those who “dedicated” themselves to the party’s ideology and asked his colleagues to be “wary of ideologically weak turncoats”. Using a Hindi proverb, he advised the office-bearers to be wary of choosing “imitations over original”.
Referring to the recent organisational reshuffle, Mr. Kharge signalled that a few more changes are in the offing.
The thrust of the meeting was on strengthening the organisational structure through capacity-building, empowering the district-level units, and promoting fresh leadership at the local level. Mr. Kharge asked the general secretaries and booth in-charges to start work from the booth-level unit and work with frontal organisations.
“I want to talk to you about the most important thing of accountability. You all will be held accountable for revamping the organisations in States and for all future election results,” Mr. Kharge told the office-bearers.
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal, Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, general secretary (communication) Jairam Ramesh, and all general secretaries and in-charges of various States were among those who attended the seven-hour review meeting.
Mr. Gandhi is learnt to have encouraged to evolve a strategy that would focus on self-management at all levels of the party organisation.
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