The biggest challenge for the Congress party is to revive the morale of its cadre shaken by the unprecedented defeat of the party in the Vidhan Sabha elections. So far the party has made about six lakh members across the State with its membership campaign being in its final stage. The Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay said this while presiding over an important party meeting attended by the party MlAs and office bearers here on Sunday.
Senior Congress members attending the Pradesh Congress Committee meeting at the Congress Bhawan discussed the party’s membership campaign in detail on the occasion. Addressing the gathering on the occasion, the PCC president Kishore Upadhyay threw light on the agenda of the meeting and informed party members about guidelines received from the All India Congress Committee about the membership and organisational elections of the party. Upadhyay informed the party members that till date, through the district Congress committee the party had worked to make more than six lakh people its members across the state. Majority of the block Congress committees have formed booth committees and worked to make people members of the Congress party at the polling centre level. The PCC chief further said that since the membership campaign of the party is in its final stage, it had been decided that an intense membership campaign will be undertaken from May 1 to May 15 till the booth level. The involvement of all the senior and other members of the party is essential in this intense membership campaign, stressed Upadhyay. The PCC chief said, “So far I have completed my tour of about 75 per cent area of the State. I am going to tour the remaining districts during this week. The biggest challenge in front of us today is to maintain the morale of the Congress party workers in Uttarakhand. The unprecedented defeat of the party has shaken the party workers,” said Upadhyay.
The PCC Chief further asked all the senior party leaders present in the meeting to forget their disagreements and unite to work towards making the party’s membership campaign a success.
Speaking at the meeting, the former Chief Minister Harish Rawat exhorted all the Congress party members to become involved in the party’s membership campaign. He said that the Congress party had a long history and also has its members in all villages and towns. It is the party leaders’ responsibility to link the party’s grassroot level workers along with members of all sections of society with the party, added the former chief minister.
The leader of opposition in the Vidhan Sabha and Haldwani MlA, Indira Hridayesh said that the party will raise important public interest issues in the Vidhan Sabha and confront the government on these issues from the assembly to the road. Stating that the coming time will be full of challenges for the Congress party, she stressed on the importance of conducting the membership campaign strongly at the village and booth levels.
Conducting the meeting, the PCC vice president Jot Singh Bisht informed the gathering about the directions received from the All India Congress Committee regarding the party’s membership campaign in the State. He also informed the party members attending the meeting about the programme related to the party’s organisational elections. The Congress legislature party deputy chief Karan Mahra said that it was the responsibility of all in the party to unite the party cadre and conduct the membership campaign to complete it efficiently on time.
Various MlAs and former cabinet ministers of the Congress party were also among those present in the meeting.