Samajwadi Party to eliminate the non performers and the sycophants from the party organisation has raised the bar for the party leaders wishing to occupy the posts in the organisation. Only those active workers of the party will be eligible to contest the election of the district president and the executive if the party had won the last assembly elections at the polling booth at their area of residence in the district.
The state president of the SP Naresh Uttam said that the party observers deputed to each district for the district convention and election on September 5 have been directed to ensure that only active members take part in the organisational elections. A party worker who had enrolled at least 1,500 members in the party during the recent membership drive is identified as active member of the party.
The SP state president said that each party observer has been given an election kit which contains the list of active members in each district. He said separate convention and election of the district and the city units will be held in 12 municipal corporation towns.
Apprehending trouble and factionalism in the party over the election of district president, party will not push for the implementation of the tough conditions. Party sources said if the consensus eludes in the election of the district president and city president then the district unit should adopt resolution authorising the state president to nominate the district president.
Naresh Uttar said the election of the urban local bodies will be top of the agenda of the district convention of the party in 75 districts. He said in the previous election of the urban local bodies in 2017, party had registered impressive presence in Nagar panchyats and nagar palika parishads where large number of party candidates particularly muslims had won as corporators and chairman of the Nagar panchyat and Nagar palika parishad. In 2012 elections close to 31 percent muslim candidates had won the urban local body elections which