A meeting of the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee’s minority department presided over by its chairman Mohammed Saleem was held on Tuesday at the State Congress headquarters.
Saleem while addressing the meet said that Congress workers should not get disappointed, the workers of the minority department have worked for the party with full might and for this they deserve kudos. “The minority department workers of the Congress should tighten their laces because now for the next five years we have to struggle at the ground level if we wish to taste success, he added. Saleem further said that the inactive office bearers of the state Congress should not be included in the organisation in the restructuring process and only the active party workers having presence at grassroots levels should be included in the party organisation.
He said that we have demanded from the party high command to give importance to the minorities in the ensuing local body elections in the state besides providing adequate representation to the leaders from the minority community in the committees to be constituted for distribution of tickets so that the minority workers could get importance. later, after the meeting an effigy of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was burnt in protest against the infamous Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination (MPPEB) scam.
At the Board office square of the state capital. During the burning of effigy the Congress workers were raising anti-chief minister slogans and were demanding his resignation and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe of the scam.