Rajasthan
Cabinet rejig, postings in due course, says AICC general secretary in-charge Ajay Maken | Jaipur News
JAIPUR: Cabinet expansion and political appointments in the state are a ‘work in progress’ and will happen in due course, said AICC general secretary in-charge Ajay Maken in the city on Tuesday. He did not specify any date this time, meaning that it may take some more time.
He played down factional fights and bickering among party functionaries as part of democracy existing in all parties and cited examples of similar incidents in Karnataka BJP.
Maken said he would discuss all issues with the CM.
Speaking to the media after a review meeting of the Covid victims’ outreach programme and party sponsored agitation programme from July 7 to 17 against price rise, he said he would discuss all issues with the chief minister during his meeting on Tuesday night.
“It is true that ministerial slots in the cabinet are vacant and political appointments have to be made. District and block-level appointments in party organisations would also take place. It is our endeavour to hold discussions with all,” he said after a meeting with party office-bearers here.
Maken, however, trained his guns on the Modi government alleging that the Centre has been discriminating against Congress-ruled states. He asked how the Centre could differentiate a state based on the party ruling that state. “We have seen it earlier in the allotment of oxygen, medicines during the second wave of Covid and, now, in the allotment of vaccines,” he said.
Maken said the PM Cares fund was flush with money collected from CSR funds of public sector undertakings and private corporates, but only the prime minister was authorised to spend it. There is no tender and audit of the account of the expenditure incurred from this fund. The common people are thus deprived of information on expenditure. In the last seven years, the Modi government had failed to prove any of the corruption charges levelled against the Congress, he said.
Lauding the Congress government for launching the relief scheme for children orphaned and women widowed by Covid, he said the party had launched an outreach programme to spread awareness and collect information on further relief required for victims of Covid in the state.
While the people are suffering due to Covid on the one hand, the Modi government policies have resulted in unprecedented inflation on the other. The party will launch a 10-day campaign against it from July 7 to 17 across the country, he said.
PCC president Govind Singh Dotasra said on July 7, the Mahila Congress would organise a dharna at all district headquarters. From July 8 to 15, the Congress workers would collect signatures at petrol pumps for the memorandum to be submitted to the central government. On July 16, a 5km cycle rally will be taken out at all district headquarters, followed by state-level functions against fuel price hike on July 17, he said.
He played down factional fights and bickering among party functionaries as part of democracy existing in all parties and cited examples of similar incidents in Karnataka BJP.
Maken said he would discuss all issues with the CM.
Speaking to the media after a review meeting of the Covid victims’ outreach programme and party sponsored agitation programme from July 7 to 17 against price rise, he said he would discuss all issues with the chief minister during his meeting on Tuesday night.
“It is true that ministerial slots in the cabinet are vacant and political appointments have to be made. District and block-level appointments in party organisations would also take place. It is our endeavour to hold discussions with all,” he said after a meeting with party office-bearers here.
Maken, however, trained his guns on the Modi government alleging that the Centre has been discriminating against Congress-ruled states. He asked how the Centre could differentiate a state based on the party ruling that state. “We have seen it earlier in the allotment of oxygen, medicines during the second wave of Covid and, now, in the allotment of vaccines,” he said.
Maken said the PM Cares fund was flush with money collected from CSR funds of public sector undertakings and private corporates, but only the prime minister was authorised to spend it. There is no tender and audit of the account of the expenditure incurred from this fund. The common people are thus deprived of information on expenditure. In the last seven years, the Modi government had failed to prove any of the corruption charges levelled against the Congress, he said.
Lauding the Congress government for launching the relief scheme for children orphaned and women widowed by Covid, he said the party had launched an outreach programme to spread awareness and collect information on further relief required for victims of Covid in the state.
While the people are suffering due to Covid on the one hand, the Modi government policies have resulted in unprecedented inflation on the other. The party will launch a 10-day campaign against it from July 7 to 17 across the country, he said.
PCC president Govind Singh Dotasra said on July 7, the Mahila Congress would organise a dharna at all district headquarters. From July 8 to 15, the Congress workers would collect signatures at petrol pumps for the memorandum to be submitted to the central government. On July 16, a 5km cycle rally will be taken out at all district headquarters, followed by state-level functions against fuel price hike on July 17, he said.
