The party is making the rule of ‘one family, one ticket’ with one rider.
The party is making the rule of ‘one family, one ticket’ with one rider.
A “one family, one ticket” rule, restrictions on consecutive tenures for office-bearers, a 50 under 50 rule to ensure that half of party positions are given to those below 50 and an in-house survey mechanism to head There are organizational changes which Congress is all set to bring after three days. Nav Sankalp Contemplation Camp which was on Friday.
Initiating the changes, party president Sonia Gandhi, while addressing the inaugural session of the conference, stressed that the party desperately needs a change in its working style.
However, the ‘one family, one ticket’ rule will come with a rider as it seeks to exempt any other family member who is doing “exemplary work”.
“Discussions on Camp Will lay the foundation for large scale organizational change. The ‘one family, one ticket’ rule has been discussed and will be discussed further. There is almost consensus on this formula and the exception will be only if another ticket candidate has worked in the party for five years, has done exemplary work,” Ajay Maken, a member of the panel discussing the organizational restructuring, told reporters.
This would effectively mean that members of the Gandhi family like Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is yet to contest elections, would be exempted as she has been working since early 2019.
In the closed-door discussion, various leaders demanded the return of Rahul Gandhi as the Congress President.
internal survey system
Other major organizational reforms being considered include setting up of Mandal committees between booth and block levels in the organisation, fixing a maximum tenure of five years for party posts with a cooling-off period of three years, a ‘Public Insights Department’. ‘ includes installation. To create an internal survey mechanism and an evaluation wing to assess the performance of the functionaries.
The party is also promising to tap the unemployed youth by discussing the legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP) to farmers and making the right to job a legal right.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said the party will discuss alliance issues after strengthening its organization and uniting its cadres as if you don’t have any investment then no partner will come.
He said the party will decide to forge an alliance with those parties that follow its ideology and are concerned about the “attack” on democracy and the Constitution and want to save them.
“It is a fight between Indian nationalists versus pseudo-nationalists. Those who stand by the principles of the Indian National Congress, represent the Indian way of life and think that this civilization has been sustained for 3,000 years,” Mr Kharge said.