Congress unveils initiatives to provide legal aid to party members at grassroots level
The Congress on Sunday announced new initiatives, including setting up rapid legal response teams at state and district levels and raising its voice for reclaiming the original RTI Act as part of efforts to encourage the involvement of youths with the party.
Unveiling four such programmes, Congress treasurer Ajay Maken and senior spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said that young minds, through such initiatives, would help provide legal aid at the grassroots level whenever required and strengthen the party’s voice to save democracy in the country.
Singhvi said the AICC Law, Human Rights and RTI Department’s new initiatives will further engagement with young lawyers to revitalise formerly existing legal networks and to platform the voices speaking out against the dilution of the landmark Right to Information Act, which he alleged, is being “chipped away, piece by piece, by this regime”.
The first such initiative is a Congress legal fellows programme for helping bring into the party mainstream young lawyers by giving them a key role in the law-making process, he said.
This three-month fellowship, Singhvi said, the details of which shall follow on the AICC social media pages, shall select 10 young lawyers to assist parliamentarians in their day-to-day work. He said the idea is to allow an opportunity to the next generation of Congress members to get a chance to understand the opposition’s role in Parliament.
