Facing humiliating defeat in the last Parliament elections besides finding the party touching the new low as far as battle of ballots is concerned during the last over two decades, Congress high-command finally decided to lay emphasis of making a re-connect with the public, know their problems and raised it at the right platform.
“The Congress is a brand, which is now losing its grip mainly due to generational gap so our main job is tell the present generation not just about our glorious past along with contributions in freedom struggle but also to make them feel that even now we are with the common man and were concern with their day-to-day problems”, asserted AICC general secretary and in-charge of UP Madhusudan Mistry, while laying stress that the party’s revival could be made in this biggest State only when they would make a direct connect with the public here.
“It is a matter of concern for us that in Gujarat and many other States, Congress candidate easily get 20,000 or more votes in Assembly elections but here in UP, we get restricted just to few thousands despite of our hard word”, cited Mistry, saying that the core-reason behind it is that Congressmen here do not took pain to make a connect with the people which is very important to re-establish the party. Mistri made this observations before the media soon after he held meeting with the district and city presidents.
Madhusudan Mistry, in the presence of State president, Nirmal Khatri, claimed that for revival of the party, they had to carry on job to make a re-connect with the people as well as to strengthen the organisation simultenously. “We already directed all the district and city president to prepare a list of 100 local people, including old Congressmen, who were concerned with the party so we could directly learnt from them that what they feel about the Congress and to take suggestion that how we could jointly restore the lost glory of the party,” Mistry said. To begin with the programme, they would go to four districts — Ambedkarnagar on October 8, Jaunpur on October 9, Hathras on October 11 and Ferojabad on October 11 after which four separate teams will be formed to take it to all the districts.
Mistri added that for better connect with the people, they had directed the local chiefs to visit to wards, villages, hold meeting with local residents, pradhans, and other civic bodies chiefs, know about the local issues and problems, and then prepared a plan along with the budget and suggestions that how those could be overcome.
“This is my personal experience that if you prepared a draft of any problem, and keep on raising the issue on right platform, all the matters would be resolved with period of time,” claimed AICC general secretary while stressing that this practice if adopted in true spirit by the Congressmen, would go a long way in re-establishing Congress connect with the local public.
Mistri also directed to open ‘Public Grievances Cell’ at every district head-quarters and to pursue all the complaints till they reached to its logical conclusion. He said that to make this job easier for the party leaders, they would organise a workshop in Vrindavan at Mathura in the first week of December.
He claimed that till then they would also give shape to the State as well as district-level units. Besides, all the district and city unit chiefs would meet every month along with their report cards, here at Congress headquarters so that time to time steps could be taken for re-establishing the party.
