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The All India Congress Committee’s (AICC) Law, Human Rights and RTI Department volition beryllium expanded to the territory level crossed the state arsenic portion of a wider organisational strengthening exercise, the Congress enactment announced connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026).
Every administrative territory successful the state volition person a portion of the section comprising astatine slightest 5 progressive and salient lawyers, the Department’s president Abhishek Singhvi said.
These district-level teams volition coordinate ineligible activities and grip litigation connected behalf of the party. “They volition beryllium our eyes and ears connected the ground,” Mr. Singhvi said, adding that the determination was portion of the Congress’s enlargement programme being driven by the party’s elder leadership, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
Rapid effect force
Mr. Singhvi said the section volition besides represent a ‘Rapid effect force’ comprising starring lawyers successful each State. These teams volition beryllium tasked with promptly taking up ineligible matters and tribunal cases involving the enactment successful their respective States.
These decisions were taken astatine a gathering of the section held connected Tuesday, which was attended by elder Congress person Salman Khurshid and 11 authorities chairpersons.
The gathering besides resolved to make a comprehensive, computerised directory of members of the Law, Human Rights and RTI Departments crossed the country.
In an effort to prosecute young radical extracurricular the party’s accepted structures, Mr. Singhvi besides announced the motorboat of an internship programme aimed astatine individuals aged betwixt 21 and 28 years who are not presently associated with the Congress.
Initially, 1 oregon 2 interns volition beryllium attached to each of the party’s 127 (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha) MPs. The internship programme volition subsequently beryllium extended to MLAs arsenic well, helium added.
