The meeting attended by general secretaries, secretaries, heads of departments as well as frontal organisations also decided to revert to the concept of active membership that envisages one becomes an active member by enrolling at least 25 members and go for common membership across all the wings of the Congress like Youth Congress, Mahila Congress, Seva Dal and NSUI (National Students Union of India).
At a meeting of senior party leaders who were summoned by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday to discuss membership enrollment, a ruckus broke briefly, when the party's communication department chairman Ajay Makan pleaded to follow the rival Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) style.
Though, he faced opposition from all those present, he attempted to make a point to enrol quality members, and a monitoring mechanism on the new members.
The AAP keeps new members under a strict monitoring control by assessing their work before elevating them to volunteers. But other general secretary notably CP Joshi told him that party has enough members and dedicated workers, but they only need to be energised by a confidante leadership.
The meeting attended by general secretaries, secretaries, heads of departments as well as frontal organisations also decided to revert to the concept of active membership that envisages one becomes an active member by enrolling at least 25 members and go for common membership across all the wings of the Congress like Youth Congress, Mahila Congress, Seva Dal and NSUI (National Students Union of India).
These are among half a dozen organisational poll reforms announced here by the Congress party's central election authority chairman Mullappally Ramachandran after a meeting with the party general secretaries as also heads of departments and cells. "This time there will be open membership, rigorous scrutiny and the delegates chosen in a transparent manner," he declared.
Other reforms to be adopted by the Congress are–raising representation of SCs, STs, OBCs and minorities in all Congress committees from 20 to 50 per cent, conduct of elections in three phases and using multiple channels for membership, including web-based application and smart phone applications.
Mullappally announced that the CEC will soon usher in enrollment through both web-based application and smart phone application. He said all these reforms were recommended by the CEC and accepted by the Congress Working Committee that had met on January 13. These will be adopted after they are debated and decided in the upcoming AICC session, after getting inputs from the states to the proposed changes. The secretaries have been also asked to tour the states extensively to enrol as many genuine members as possible.
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