Guwahati, Jun 28 (PTI) All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal will review the party’s poor performance in the Assam Assembly elections on July 1, officials said on Sunday.
A senior Assam Congress member, who requested anonymity, told PTI that Venugopal will be in the state for a two-day visit from June 30 and will deliberate on the ways to strengthen the organisation post the loss in the state.
“An organisational meeting has been called on July 1 at the state headquarters Rajiv Bhawan. Venugopal will review the organisation’s performance and is likely to give us the roadmap for the future,” he added.
Already, a letter has been issued by Assam Congress general secretary (Organisation) Ramanna Baruah to all the party MPs, MLAs, Political Affairs Committee (PAC) members, APCC office bearers, frontal group heads and district presidents with intimation of the meeting and asked them to attend it.
Besides, all the contested candidates of the Assam Legislative Assembly Election have also been invited for the meeting to have feedback from them, the party official said.
The Congress and Raijor Dal, who were part of a six-party opposition alliance, won 19 and two seats respectively in the 126-member House.
Post its debacle, Assam Congress President Gaurav Gogoi had formed multiple teams to conduct a ground review of each constituency. The teams comprised MLAs, ex-MLAs and senior Congress leaders.
They were asked to conduct their reviews from May 29 to June 2 and submit the reports accordingly.
However, several members of the teams told PTI that Gogoi has neither invited the teams nor discussed the reports as of now.
“We thought that he would call us and discuss the reports. In our reports, we highlighted the party’s shortcomings as well as how the BJP gained the upper hand due to several of their decisions,” one of the members said.
With Venugopal taking stock of the party’s performance, it is expected that the constituency-wise reports will be discussed on July 1 in his presence.
“He will give us guidance and ways to strengthen the party in the future. We need to rejuvenate our workers, who are highly demotivated after the assembly election,” the official said.
The NDA, comprising the BJP, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), secured a sweeping mandate in the assembly polls, winning a record 102 seats. The BJP alone bagged 82, its first single-party majority in the state, while AGP and BPF won 10 seats each.
The AIUDF and Trinamool Congress fought separately as single entities and have two and one MLAs respectively. PTI TR TR RG
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