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Eyeing 2014, Sonia wants
government-party in unison
Sunday September 23, 2012 06:15:56 PM,
Amit Agnihotri,
IANS
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New Delhi: With a
cabinet reshuffle and party restructuring in the offing, Congress
president Sonia Gandhi is keen that both the government and the
organisation work in tandem to fight as many as 11 upcoming
assembly polls before hitting the 2014 general elections.
Gandhi also wants the party to start with a clean slate, leaving
behind the scars of the various corruption charges - 2G spectrum,
Commonwealth Games and coal mines allocation - against the party
and the government and forge ahead with its development and social
welfare agenda, top party leaders told IANS.
The party has to gear up for assembly elections in Himachal Prdesh
and Gujarat in 2012-end and in nine states - Delhi, Karnataka,
Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya, Mizoram,
Nagaland and Tripura - in 2013.
In around seven states, the Congress would be in a direct fight
with the Bharatiya Janata Party.
"The Congress president feels the new teams in the government and
the party should work in greater unison to fight the electoral
challenges in the states till the 2014 Lok Sabha polls," a senior
leader, who did not wish to be named, told IANS.
The buzz over a reshuffle in the union cabinet has gained momentum
after six ministers from the Trinamool Congress resigned from the
Manmohan Singh government on Friday, creating vacancies to be
filled up. This apart, many cabinet ministers are holding dual
portfolios.
The reshuffle could happen by September end and is likely to be
followed by a restructuring in the party organisation, said
Congress sources but refused to reveal any details.
"When completed the changes would certainly reflect our Team
2014," a Congress general secretary told IANS.
He added that party functionaries were keen the restructuring
should be done now as "a series of state polls till November 2013
would hardly give us any time".
"A united effort by the government and the party would be more
beneficial to fight the coming assembly polls and counter the
negative propaganda of the opposition...that is the need of the
hour," said a Congress Working Committee member.
According to another Congress general secretary, new teams in both
the government and the party would bring in new thoughts and
clarity on what needs to be done to win the electoral battles
ahead.
"The united effort will be for development and uplift of the
poor," he said.
Congress sources said while electoral victories in state polls
will help silence the party's critics, the development and
pro-poor measures carried out by the government will help it
connect with the masses.
(Amit Agnihotri can be contacted at amit.a@ians.in)
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