The urban conventions of the Samajwadi Party would start from October 11 that would be followed by the membership drive. This was decided at the State executive meeting of the Madhya Pradesh unit of the Samajwadi Party (SP) held here on Monday at party state office and was presided over by state president Ashok Yadav.
Discussions pertaining to local body’s elections scheduled to be held this year, constitution of district working committees, membership drive and constitution of various cells of the party at state and district level besides organizing of state conventions of backward class, minority and Mazdoor Sabha were held in the meeting.
SP state office in-charge Saheblal Gaur in a statement after the meeting informed that the state executive decided that the party would contest the local body elections with full might and for that urban conventions at city and town level would be held that would start from October. Eleven member district committees would be constituted to decide the tickets for mayors, municipality chairman, Panchayat Chairman and Corporators. Party workers and office
bearers would be preferred at every level in ticket distribution, he added.
A resolution to expel former state president of the party Gauri Singh Yadav was also taken unanimously in the meeting, said SP State general secretary Rakesh Singh Baghel. “Gauri Singh has been charged with large scale irregularities during his tenure, we have informed in detail about that to the national leadership and sought his expulsion for six years from the party,”
Baghel added.
Gaur said that besides office bearers of the state organisation and district presidents the state presidents of umbrella organizations and divisional in-charges from all over the state participated in the
important meeting.