Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and celebration president Mallikarjun Kharge will meet a number of functionaries from West Bengal in Delhi on Monday to deliberate on deciding on the following state celebration president. The transfer is necessitated as the present West Bengal Congress chief, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s tenure has ended.
Apart from Chowdhury, former state presidents Pradip Bhattacharya and Abdul Mannan, senior leaders Deepa Dasmunsi, Amitabha Chakraborty, Nepal Mahato, Manoj Chakraborty and Isha Khan Choudhury, the celebration’s sole Lok Sabha member from West Bengal who gained the Malda South seat within the parliamentary elections have been summoned to Delhi for the assembly, reported Hindustan Instances.
Manna won’t attend the assembly due to sickness and has communicated the identical to the celebration.
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5-time Member of Parliament from Murshidabad district’s Berhampore Lok Sabha seat since 1999, Chowdhury failed to take care of the streak throughout this yr’s Lok Sabha elections.
He was defeated by Indian cricketer and Trinamool Congress chief Yusuf Pathan in his electoral debut.
Congress common secretary KC Venugopal had earlier requested state leaders to convey their opinions on the management points via e-mail or textual content messages.
Bhattacharya mentioned that they’d expressed their opinions. “I don’t know whether or not the highest leaders need to meet us individually or collectively,” he added.
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The Monday assembly comes at a time when the West Bengal unit of the Congress celebration goes via its worst section since Independence. The celebration lacks illustration within the legislative meeting and the organisational energy of the celebration within the districts and Kolkata has additionally decreased considerably.
“Reviving the celebration in Bengal is a herculean activity proper now,” Bhattacharya mentioned, as per the HT report.