The first meeting of the Congress election steering committee for the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) election was held at the State Congress office on Thursday.
It is learnt that the 100 wards of the city have been divided into 20 zones- each for five wards- and the members of the steering committee have been handed over the task of monitoring the election campaign. The important meeting was presided over by the chairman of the steering committee Hira Singh Bisht who is also a former Minister. He said that every member of the committee should be given the charge of monitoring five wards. The members would inform the party head office about the problem the candidates face.
In the meeting, some members raised the issue of the misuse of the government machinery by the BJP candidates and suggested that complaint should be lodged in the state election commission regarding these violations.
The meeting was attended by the Congress’s mayoral candidate Dinesh Agarwal, Pramod Kumar Singh, R P Raturi, Neenu Sehgal, Narendrajeet Singh Bindra, the mahanagar president Lal Chand Sharma, mahanagar women wing president Kamlesh Raman, Tahir Ali and state NSUI president Mohan Bhandari.