Focus on toning up party: AICC
New Delhi: In what may provide a new twist to the ongoing crisis in the Congress and the Government in the State, AICC general secretary in charge of Meghalaya, Luizinho Faleiro, is slated to visit Shillong on Friday. AICC sources, however, maintained that Faleiro’s visit is purely a postponed and prescheduled one and is meant to invigorate the Congress party in the State.
Faleiro will attend a meeting of the much-delayed Congress Legislature Party, AICC sources said, adding, he will also meet the MPs, ministers, legislators and leaders of Congress frontal organisations.
Most importantly, the meetings will appoint ‘guardian’ ministers who will look after the party activities. It will also assign all ministers to visit each district regularly to oversee party and Government work, the sources said.
When contacted Faleiro said that his visit is a scheduled one and he will meet the party leaders and revive the Congress from the grass root level. The meetings will also aim to prepare a road map for reorganization of the party in the State.
The meetings will also review various flagship programmes of the Government including the land acquisition work and the progress on the implementation of the Food Security Act, Faleiro said, adding the main focus will be resumption of the membership drive.
The meetings will also prepare a calendar of events for the party for the whole year. It will also activate the social media to reach out to more people on more subjects in less time, he said.
When asked whether the dissidents’ demand for removal of Chief Minister Mukul Sangma will be discussed during his visit to the State, the AICC general secretary said, “After Lok Sabha polls I have visited all the N-E states barring Meghalaya since MPCC had requested me to defer it in the wake of disturbed situation following the ban on coal mining by NGT.”
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, who arrived in the national capital on Friday, is leaving for Shillong on Monday.
Sources close to him clarified that he had not sought any appointment with either party president Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi, and hence the question of getting time from them does not arise.