Adilabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee has ordered Adilabad district and mandal level leaders to attend the TPCC general body meeting on Wednesday, which will be chaired by the newly appointed AICC in-charge of Telangana Deepa Dasmunshi.
Ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, Congress leadership is focusing on strengthening the party from grassroots by constituting new mandal committees wherever the party lost the assembly constituency despite winning the majority of assembly seats and forming the government in Telangana.
Congress lost six of the seven assembly constituencies in Adilabad parliament constituency. Such a major loss is being attributed to differences within the leaders of the mandal-level committees and lack of coordination among them.
Congress party is thus making serious efforts to bring in unity and coordination among its village and mandal level leaders in the six assembly constituencies that it lost in Adilabad Lok Sabha constituency.
It is said that TPCC is also planning to fill up the posts of DCC presidents that are lying vacant in the erstwhile Adilabad district. Many district and state-level leaders are lobbying for the DCC and nominated posts. However, it is stated the party high command has made it clear that those who have lost the assembly elections should not aspire for the DCC posts.
Incidentally, TPCC working president Mahesh Kumar Goud and AICC secretaries Rohit Chowdhary and P.C. Vishnunadh had camped in Adilabad for a few days. They took stock of the party position in the erstwhile Adilabad district.
Panchayat raj and district in-charge minister Seethakka, who had been in Adilabad and interacted with party leaders has expressed confidence of Congress winning the Adilabad Lok Sabha seat reserved for STs.
She underlined that though BJP has won four seats in the erstwhile Adilabad district assembly constituency, Adilabad BJP MP Soyam Bapu Rao himself lost the Boath assembly that he contested in the recent assembly elections.
