JAIPUR: The absence of Congress leaders, including senior ministers and MLAs, at the party’s Jaipur divisional level meeting attended by AICC in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra raised eyebrows on Saturday.
The meeting was convened to discuss the “Hath se Hath Jodo” campaign. Dotasra after the meeting said the party would seek an explanation from leaders who remained absent without prior intimation.
Expressing anger on the absence of leaders, Dotasra said, “When Rahul Gandhi can walk 3,800 kilometre to connect the country, then it is our duty to follow his footsteps and go to the people. Every Congress leader and worker who has to contest elections will have to actively participate in the programmes of the party organisation and have to go to the public,” he said.
Earlier also, Randhawa expressed his displeasure over the absence of party leaders missing meetings and asked the leaders to take party meetings seriously. But despite the warning, the leaders, including senior ministers and MLAs, give it a miss. It includes the district president (Jaipur rural) and minister Rajendra Yadav.
The Saturday meeting was to be attended by ministers, MLAs, block presidents and zilla pramukhs of the five districts of Jaipur, Dausa, Sikar , Jhunjhunu and Alwar under the Jaipur division. The Congress party has 34 MLAs from these five districts but only 14 turned up at the meeting, according to sources.
The absentees include ministers Lal Chand Kataria, Rajendra Yadav, Mahesh Joshi, MLAs Ganga Devi, Rafiq Khan, Ved Prakash Solanki from Jaipur district while from Alwar include Babulal , Deep Chand, Johari Lal Meena, Shafia Zuber, and Sandeep Yadav. The MLAs missed from Sikar district include Deependra Singh Shekhawat, Virendra Chaudhary, and Parasram Mordia while from Jhunjhunu district are minister Rajendra Singh Ghuda, MLAs Rajkumar Sharma, Rita Chudhary and from Dausa district minister Parsadi Lal Meena and Gajraj Khatana.
The meeting was convened to discuss the “Hath se Hath Jodo” campaign. Dotasra after the meeting said the party would seek an explanation from leaders who remained absent without prior intimation.
Expressing anger on the absence of leaders, Dotasra said, “When Rahul Gandhi can walk 3,800 kilometre to connect the country, then it is our duty to follow his footsteps and go to the people. Every Congress leader and worker who has to contest elections will have to actively participate in the programmes of the party organisation and have to go to the public,” he said.
Earlier also, Randhawa expressed his displeasure over the absence of party leaders missing meetings and asked the leaders to take party meetings seriously. But despite the warning, the leaders, including senior ministers and MLAs, give it a miss. It includes the district president (Jaipur rural) and minister Rajendra Yadav.
The Saturday meeting was to be attended by ministers, MLAs, block presidents and zilla pramukhs of the five districts of Jaipur, Dausa, Sikar , Jhunjhunu and Alwar under the Jaipur division. The Congress party has 34 MLAs from these five districts but only 14 turned up at the meeting, according to sources.
The absentees include ministers Lal Chand Kataria, Rajendra Yadav, Mahesh Joshi, MLAs Ganga Devi, Rafiq Khan, Ved Prakash Solanki from Jaipur district while from Alwar include Babulal , Deep Chand, Johari Lal Meena, Shafia Zuber, and Sandeep Yadav. The MLAs missed from Sikar district include Deependra Singh Shekhawat, Virendra Chaudhary, and Parasram Mordia while from Jhunjhunu district are minister Rajendra Singh Ghuda, MLAs Rajkumar Sharma, Rita Chudhary and from Dausa district minister Parsadi Lal Meena and Gajraj Khatana.
