Congress President addresses special meeting of Leadership Development Mission
NEW DELHI, July 5: The Congress has laid added emphasis and greater focus on building and carving out leaders from among the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and the Minority communities.
Addressing a special ‘Leadership Development Mission’ (LDM) programme here today, Congress president Shri Mallikarjun Kharge said, it was decided during the ‘Udaipur Chintan Shivr’ to launch a special programme for the leadership development among the SCs, STs, OBCs and Minorities and he was happy that the party had launched the programme and appointed LDM Coordinators for all the Assembly Constituencies and the SC and ST parliament seats.
The Congress President said, the LDM was part of its bigger goal towards social justice and also to empower these communities. He said, current and new leaders will be carved out who will lead and represent their respective communities and also help in strengthening the party.
Maintaining that while these leaders will indeed improve the chances of the party candidates during the elections, Mr Kharge made it categorically clear that the LDM programme had nothing to do with identifying the candidates for elections.
The party president said, it is the duty of the PCC, DCC and the BCC presidents to take the mission forward to the grassroots level. He said, he will be personally monitoring its development. Besides, he suggested to the party general secretaries, in-charges and the PCC presidents, to at least review and assess the work of the mission at least once in a month.
He also asked all the frontal organisations to cooperate with the success of the mission, as it will strengthen the party at the grassroots.
Mr Kharge expressed immense happiness over the efforts being made to make the mission successful. He said, he was impressed by the resource material prepared for the mission, which must have taken lot of efforts and hardwork.
Shri KC Venugopal, General Secretary (Org), Shri Pawan Bansal, Treasurer, AICC, Shri K. Raju, National Coordinator, AICC (SC, ST, OBC & Minority Departments, Shri Vamshi Reddy, Secretary (Organization), AICC, Shri Rajesh Lilothia, Chairman, SC Department, Rajya Sabha MP Shri Imran Pratapgarhi, Chairman, Minority Department, Shri Shivajirao Moghe, Chairman, ST Department, Capt. Ajay Yadav, Chairman, OBC Department, Shri Lalji Desai, Chief Organizer, Congress Seva Dal, Ms. Netta D’souza, President, All India Mahila Congress and Shri Harshvardhan, Vice Chairman, RGPRS also attended the National Workshop on Leadership Development Mission and motivated LDM Coordinators and State Chairpersons of SC, ST, OBC & Minority Departments at AICC Headquarters, New Delhi.
