Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Harshwardhan Sapkal. File | Photograph Credit score: PTI
The Maharashtra Congress is about to start overhaul of its organizational on the grassroots stage by its Sangathan Srujan Abhiyan amid criticism amongst employees over the dearth of celebration group and dominance of repeat faces.
The change will embody the first-ever number of the taluka (block) president.
As a part of the train, the celebration is finalizing the listing of 72 district presidents throughout the State, and in a departure from previous practices, the marketing campaign will even embody appointments on the taluka stage, overlaying 675 talukas. Choosing taluka stage president is an initiative of State unit chief Harshwardhan Sapkal.
Below the brand new mannequin, taluka Congress presidents shall be appointed together with heads of ten frontal organizations and departments at every taluka, together with Youth Congress, NSUI, Mahila Congress and Seva Dal, in addition to representatives from OBC, SC, ST, VJNT, minority and social media wings.
State observers have been tasked with recommending at the very least three names for every put up, with the ultimate choice to be taken by the celebration management. The initiative is predicted to supply organizational obligations to greater than 7,000 celebration employees, widening the management base throughout the celebration.
“The train will prioritize youth management and purpose to reinforce illustration of OBCs, Dalits, Adivasis, minorities and ladies within the organizational construction. Congress will work on two ideas for subsequent few years. One is constructing group on foundation of ideology and combating for individuals’s issues as a result of failures of the Union and Maharashtra governments,” Mr. Sapkal stated. It’ll additionally strengthen the celebration for the 2029 (meeting and Lok Sabha) polls, he added.
Presidents of 45 of 60 organizational districts of the celebration within the State are set to get replaced, whereas chiefs of 12 newly created organizational districts shall be appointed.
The celebration has set a goal to nominate round 8,000 new workplace bearers, together with district and taluka presidents, throughout the subsequent two months, Mr. Sapkal stated.
“The Congress is presently implementing the ‘Sangathan Srujan’ (organizational restructuring) program in Maharashtra. For this, one observer from Delhi has been despatched to every district. These observers will submit panels of names for the brand new presidents to the central management, which can then finalize the appointments,” he stated.
All those that have served as district presidents for 5 years or extra shall be changed with new faces.
“There isn’t a opposition to creating new appointments. Leaders who’ve held the put up for a few years are themselves insisting that new faces ought to be given an opportunity. The target is to not take away current district presidents, however to supply alternatives to new management,” Mr. Sapkal stated.
Printed – April 06, 2026 02:20 am IST