Botsa to prepare Congress for 2014

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AICC General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is expected to return from abroad on Monday, is likely to review the poor showing by the Congress with the party state leadership. Party leaders, meanwhile, are coming up with their own reasons for the poor performance.

Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana on Sunday told this correspondent that he plans to organise a brain-storming session with select party leaders from all over the state. “We need to prepare and plan for the 2014 general elections from now itself. There has been a call from party leaders for a brain-storming session to thrash out all issues confronting the party and the government. We have decided to hold the brain-storming session by the end of this month, outside the Gandhi Bhavan,” Mr Satyanarayana said. He said it was time for some introspection.

At the proposed meeting, the party leaders would review all activities of both the government and the party. The PCC president said, “Until now some schemes and programmes were introduced even without any such demand from the party cadre or the general public. Now, we will review these and also come up with some new schemes based on public demand to make them more effective.”

Mr Satyanarayana added that local body elections may come up for discussion. “By the time we hold the proposed meeting, we would have got inputs from district party units on the performance of the party in the just-concluded byelections,” the PCC president said. In a related development, some Congress leaders like Deputy Speaker Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, ministers S. Sailajanath, P. Balaraju and MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy met at the Congress Legislature Party office on Sunday.

They too endorsed the need for conducting a thorough review of the party's performance in the bypolls and chalk out plans for the 2014 elections.