The Congress has set a target of enrolling about 7.5 lakh new members as part of its State membership campaign 2014-17. As per the schedule fixed by the All India Congress Committee, the State member campaign will be undertaken in four stages, said the campaign chief coordinator Sunderlal Muyal while addressing the media here on Thursday.
Muyal expressed hope that considering the results of the recent Vidhan Sabha bypolls and panchayat elections in Uttarakhand, the party is confident of meeting its membership target in the State. In the first stage of the membership campaign, new members enrolled for a fee of Rs five will be made till December 31 this year after which the district Congress committee will publish the primary list of members by January 15, 2015. Objections will be taken by the DCC scrutiny committee by January 22 which will be addressed by January 31 while challenging the decision of the district committee in the State election authority by February 10 which in turn will address these appeals by February 20. Decision of the State authority can be challenged in the central authority by March 2 which in turn will address these by March 15 after which the final list of those wanting to stand election to the district Congress committee will be published by March 25. The executive of the primary committees will be formed between April 1 and 31, 2015 which will mark the end of the first phase. The second phase from May 15 to 31 will focus on the block Congress committees, the third phase from June 7 to 27 will consist of the elections of the district Congress committees’ heads, vice chairpersons, treasurers and executive, while the fourth phase will be held from July 5 to 31.
Muyal said that with AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi making it mandatory for photographs of newly enrolled members to be attached with the membership form, there is less scope for anomalies in the membership campaign. The Congress has 18 organisational districts and 158 organisational blocks in the State, he added. State membership campaign co-coordinators Tika Ram Pandey and Vipul Jain along with PCC media coordinator Surendra Singh Arya were also present on the occasion.