Party’s dist presidents will be strengthened, says Cong’s Rathore

All-India Congress Committee spokesperson Kuldeep Singh Rathore, who’s also an MLA from the Theog Assembly constituency, said the Ahmadabad convention has infused new enthusiasm in the Congress workers. “The convention was very successful. The echo of the war cry against the BJP in the convention will soon be heard across the country,” he said.

While addressing a press conference here today, Rathore said the Congress had chosen the path of justice against the current government in which injustice, unemployment and inflation are the major issues. “The Congress will strengthen the party organisation from booth-level to district. District presidents will be strengthened and made more powerful and they will also be invited to big meetings of the party,” he said.

He further said that they would also play an important role in the selection of party candidates for the elections. “The accountability will be fixed in the organisation,” he said.

He said the top leadership of Congress – national president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi – have made it clear that the party would be strengthened from the grassroots. Rathore said he had been given an important responsibility as the observer of the All-India Congress Committee in Gujarat. He said that during his tenure as the state party president, he worked at the grassroots level to ensure the victory of the party in those assembly constituencies of the state where the party had been losing for the last several years.

Meanwhile, expressing happiness over the US holding back the imposition of new tariff for 90 days, Kuldeep Rathore demanded that the Central Government should strongly advocate the interests of farmers and fruit growers with the US.

Demanding increase in import duty on apple, he said the apple economy worth Rs 5,000 crore was being affected by foreign imports. Rathore said he would write a letter to all the BJP MPs of the state and request them to present the state’s case before the Centre to save the apple economy.

Himachal Tribune