There aren’t any magic wands; time to pay off debt to birthday celebration: Sonia Gandhi forward of Chintan Shivir

By way of PTI

NEW DELHI: Sending out a transparent message to critics inside the organisation, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday stated self-criticism is wanted in birthday celebration boards but it surely will have to now not be executed to erode self-confidence and morale, as she asserted that it’s time “to pay off our debt to the birthday celebration”.

Forward of the Congress’ Chintan Shivir in Udaipur from Might 13 to fifteen, she sought the cooperation of all leaders in sending around the message of team spirit, brotherly love and dedication to verify the birthday celebration’s sped up revival, whilst underlining that “there aren’t any magic wands”.

Addressing most sensible Congress leaders on the birthday celebration’s running committee assembly, she stated the Chintan Shivir will have to now not turn out to be a ritual and it will have to usher in a restructured organisation to fulfill the ideological, electoral and managerial demanding situations forward.

“Self-criticism is in fact wanted in our birthday celebration boards. However this will have to now not be executed in a way that erodes self-confidence and morale and an environment of gloom and doom prevails. On the contrary, we’re beholden to place our heads in combination and in combination, jointly triumph over the demanding situations that face us,” Gandhi stated.

“This calls for that the Chintan Shivir (brainstorming consultation) does now not turn out to be a ritual, one thing we should simply get thru. I’m decided that it will have to usher in a restructured organisation to fulfill the numerous ideological, electoral and managerial duties we confront,” she stated.

The Congress leader stated that “there aren’t any magic wands”. It is just with selfless paintings, self-discipline and a way of constant collective goal that “we will be able to show our tenacity and resilience,” she stated.

“The birthday celebration has been central to the lifetime of every one in every of us. It has anticipated our overall allegiance and has been excellent to every one in every of us. Now, after we are at a the most important juncture, it’s crucial that we step ahead and pay off our debt to the birthday celebration in complete measure,” Gandhi stated on the birthday celebration’s most sensible decision-making frame — Congress Running Committee (CWC) — assembly right here.

In a press convention after the CWC meet, Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and Randeep Surjewala stated the purpose of the shivir is to arrange a brand new motion plan and highway map to get the birthday celebration battle-ready for the 2024 Lok Sabha and upcoming meeting elections.

“It’s not a vacation spot it’s the starting of a protracted adventure. This can be a milestone. After every of the Chintan Shivirs, the organisation has passed through transformation, it is a transformation of exceptional magnitude,” Ramesh stated.

He stated there are severe demanding situations ahead of the rustic, and the Congress and the folk be expecting the birthday celebration to play a job. “The truth that we’re keeping the shivir is in itself a message that the Congress president way trade.”

Gandhi additionally talked in regards to the deliberations to be held on the shivir which will likely be in six other teams – taking on political, financial, social justice, farmers, formative years and organisational problems.

The Congress leader stated delegates have already been knowledgeable in regards to the teams wherein they’re anticipated to take part and on Might 15, the birthday celebration will undertake the “Udaipur Nav Sankalp” after it’s been authorized by means of the CWC there.

“I request your complete cooperation in making sure that the one over-riding message that is going forth loud and transparent from Udaipur is one in every of team spirit, brotherly love, choice and dedication to our birthday celebration’s sped up revival,” she stated.

Gandhi stated round 400 Congress contributors will likely be attending the shivir and stressed out at the message of each and every chief keeping one birthday celebration submit. The birthday celebration has made each and every effort to verify a balanced illustration from each and every attitude, she stated.

Surjewala stated the purpose is to arrange a brand new optimistic function for the Congress as an opposition birthday celebration as in step with other folks’s aspirations, come true to other folks’s expectancies by means of internalising transformations and produce forth a brand new get to the bottom of.

“The purpose of the Nav Sankalp Shivir is to upward thrust to the expectancies of other folks after bringing about organisational adjustments, and are available out with a brand new pledge to avoid wasting the rustic,” he stated, including, this is why six separate teams have been shaped to soak up the demanding situations on more than a few fronts.

The conveners of the six teams gave detailed reviews and plans, and CWC contributors mentioned those in addition to put forth their perspectives, Surjewala stated Detailed discussions on a majority of these problems will likely be held on the consultation in Udaipur, he stated.

Ramesh stated the consultation will assist in making the Congress a rejuvenated and reinforced birthday celebration to handle the political and different demanding situations ahead of it. Organisational adjustments can also be an consequence of the shivir, he stated.

“We don’t seem to be going to Udaipur to draft an motion plan to toughen the Congress to handle the political, financial, social and different demanding situations,” Ramesh stated. He stated that is the fourth Chintan Shivir, after those in Pachmarhi in 1998, in Shimla in 2003 and in January 2013 in Jaipur.

Fifty in step with cent of the delegates for the impending shivir are under 50 years of age and round 35 in step with cent are under 40 years. Twenty-one in step with cent are girls, representing other sections of society, Surjewala stated.

CWC contributors, together with particular and everlasting invitees, state presidents, CLP leaders, former Union ministers, AICC secretaries and joint secretaries, all MPs, presidents of more than a few AICC cells and departments, all nationwide office-bearers of birthday celebration wings, but even so 50 birthday celebration leaders who’re a part of the coordination panel or decided on by means of birthday celebration leader, are a number of the 422 invitees for the consultation, he stated.

On the meet, the CWC authorized an modification within the birthday celebration charter to incorporate virtual club and determined that Ladakh could have a separate Congress territorial wing.