AICC general secretary Digvijaya Singh has pulled up the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) leadership for soft-pedalling the TRS government in the State in spite of its failure to fulfil any of the pre-poll promises seven months after assuming power.
Mr. Singh, who is in-charge of the Congress party affairs in Telangana, along with another AICC secretary R.C. Kuntia, held the TPCC coordination committee meeting at Gandhi Bhavan on Tuesday with its members Ponnala Lakshmaiah, K. Jana Reddy, N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, D. Srinivas, Md Ali Shabbir, J. Geetha Reddy, C. Damodar Rajanarsimha and D. Sridhar Babu. Later, they elicited feedback from four groups comprising 16 party leaders each on strengthening the party.
The honeymoon period for the TRS government was over and it was for the CLP and TPCC to pull up their socks and start exposing the government on its failures and corruption, Mr. Singh was understood to have told the party leaders. He further told them that as a constructive Opposition party, the Congress waited for over seven months with patience, but the administration was neither impressive nor inspiring from the people’s point of view as none of the pre-poll promises were fulfilled so far, party sources stated.
Mr. Singh was learnt to have counselled them not to indulge in bickering and focus instead on highlighting the government failures. While enquiring about defection of Congress legislators and leaders to the ruling TRS, he reliably expressed displeasure with the party’s reaction stating that it should have been more aggressive.
Based on the feedback from the coordination committee members, the AICC general secretary suggested reconstituting party panels at district and block (mandal) level as there was migration of Congress leaders to the ruling party in all the districts. He told the party leaders to gear up for the municipal corporation elections of Hyderabad, Warangal and Khammam and MLC elections over the next few months.
A few leaders were stated to have complained against the functioning of TPCC chief and the composition of eight groups consisting of 16 leaders each.
