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The recently elected 77 territory presidents from Tamil Nadu near for Delhi for a peculiar predisposition programme connected Tuesday, up of the Assembly elections.
The party, leaders said, had launched a “sweeping organisational overhaul” and an “aggressive grassroots mobilisation drive” aimed astatine reviving its booth-level machinery.
Earlier, a top-level reshuffle nether Sangathan Srijan Abhiyan (SSA) — an interior organisational revamp was carried retired betwixt October and December — with an expanded booth-level outreach program which envisaged up to 14 workers per booth and 2 volunteers for each thoroughfare to prosecute voters, explicate argumentation positions and antagonistic BJP’s narrative. Party leaders judge the workout volition assistance rejuvenate the Congress by rebuilding its link with voters from the crushed up.
Under the SSA, the Congress undertook a State-wide restructuring of its territory units, identifying progressive grassroots leaders, and elevating them to organisational roles. Of the 77 territory presidents appointed past month, lone six were retained from the erstwhile set-up, portion a bulk of the caller appointees are aged beneath 50 and travel from grassroots backgrounds, sources said. The recently appointed presidents person been tasked with overseeing booth-level operations crossed their districts and are attending a one-day predisposition programme successful Delhi on with leaders from different States.
L. Rex, councillor and Congress territory president for Tiruchi (Urban), 1 of the six leaders retained, said the organisational reforms had energised cadres moving astatine the grassroots. “The changes astatine the apical person fixed assurance to workers astatine the booth level. After the elections, a 10-day peculiar campy is planned for territory presidents,” helium said.
However, immoderate leaders flagged concerns implicit the timing of the initiative. A Congress MLA from the cardinal portion said the overhaul had travel excessively adjacent to the elections, leaving constricted clip for caller territory presidents to familiarise themselves with section dynamics and booth-level functionaries. A elder Congress person from Aranthangi successful Pudukkottai territory said that portion the restructuring was a invited move, entrenched networks built by erstwhile territory presidents would beryllium hard to dismantle successful a abbreviated span.
At the booth level, the enactment plans to deploy 1 Booth Level Agent-2 (BLA-2) for elector database verification, isolated from 9 to 14 booth-level workers depending connected section capacity, with 2 workers assigned per street. Each booth volition person a designated integer cause to way elector status, including assisting families successful obtaining decease certificates wherever required, a territory president from the delta portion said.
A person said the outreach was nether mode successful areas wherever Congress MLAs, councillors, and section assemblage representatives had influence, with the full cognition being monitored by the party’s IT helping from its office successful Delhi and Chennai. Booth-level workers are tasked with disseminating the party’s positions and highlighting what leaders picture arsenic “anti-people policies” of the Narendra Modi Ministry.
Party functionaries said the nonsubjective was to found a nonstop and sustained connection transmission with voters that would stay successful spot adjacent beyond the elections.
