By Rizwan ASAD
Mansoor Ali Khan And Nivedith Alva Aspiants For MLC Polls
Mansoor Ali Khan General Secretary KPCC
Nivedith Alva KPCC General Secretary
It was only on last Sunday, 15th May 2022 the grand old party had adopted the Nav Sankalp Declaration at Chintan Shivir organised in Udaipur where the who’s who of the Congress Party from across the country were present. Just days after the new resolution has been adopted by the Congress Party, the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee has ignored the major resolutions and is nominating two 73 year olds – SR Patil and Allum Veerabhadrappa to the biennial elections for six seats of the Karnataka Legislative Council which is scheduled to be held on June 3. Patil is the former IT-BT and Infrastructure Minister. Veerabhadrappa is an incumbent MLC and the former KPCC President.
This would have been the first opportunity for the Congress party to showcase its resolve to transform itself according to the decisions taken at the just concluded three-day Chintan Shivir where the Congress Working Committee adopted the Nav Shankalp Declaration.
“Many ideas arose about the continuation of the same person in the party for a long time. The principle of “one person, one position” should be implemented in the organisation. The party will set aside 50% of party positions for those less than 50 years of age in party committees at every level of the Congress organisation. The party has also approved 50% representation to SCs, STs, OBCs and minorities at all levels of the organisation, as part of its social engineering efforts to win the confidence of the weaker and oppressed sections of society. No person will hold one party position for more than five years. Once the tenure is over, the office bearers will have to resign from their post. This will be followed by a cooling period of three years in case the leader returns to the same post” read the Nav Sankalp declaration adopted by the Congress Party in Udaipur.
“These are testing times. Karnataka will be facing the Assembly elections next year and this is a time when the party has to accommodate and promote young faces rather than putting the same old repeated faces who has continuously lost. Congress party has to do away with such age old practices if they really want to take on the BJP. On the other hand BJP is pushing young and normal kaaryakartas who has worked on the ground” said a senior Congress leader on the condition of anonymity.
The Congress party’s decision to provide 50 per cent representation to those below 50 years of age at all levels of organisation, as per the declaration is a landmark decision. But it is precisely for not following up on their own decisions that many senior leaders have left the party. Recently CM Ibrahim, a senior Muslim leader left the party to join the JD(S) after being denied the post of LoP in the Legislative Council that was given to BK Hariprasad. Mansoor Ali khan son of Former Rajya sabha chairman K. Rehman Khan who is one of the aspirant and he qualifies to become a MLC as he is young,dynamic,educated and more over he is from miniority community and after C,M Ibrahim leaving The congress party Mansoor qualifies to become a MLC and the muslim Community are pinning the hopes on Mansoor and if He is not given the ticket many would be disspointed and many may leave the congress party,Mansoor ALI Khan Is also A General Secretary Of KPCC .Similary Nivedith Alva, a Christian and young face of the party was denied a chance and along with many young Lingayat faces have been neglected.
