Rahul to breathe new life into APCC

Vijayawada: AICC president Rahul Gandhi will address a public meeting at Kurnool in the third week of this month to breathe new life into the party which lies in a moribund state after its ignoble defeat in 2014 elections. The party hopes that Rahul Gandhi's visit will work like a tonic to the cadres who are lying low with no hope of the party coming back to life.

Rahul Gandhi, after he made a rejig of the AICC and CWC, is trying to give a new look to the party and skipper it to victory in the next elections. Though it is a daunting task for the Congress to make its presence felt on AP soil, the Congress supremo is doing his best. Appointment of veteran war horse Oommen Chandy as in charge of AP affairs with a brief to him locate leaders who had left the party and persuade them to come back to the party, is one such step in the direction.

Chandy, after attending APCC executive committee meeting here on Wednesday, said the party has decided to make the Kurnool public meeting a grand success. Referring to appointment of mandal and constituency level co-ordination committee members in the state, Chandy said by August 10 co-ordination committees will be appointed in all Assembly constituencies and mandals of the state.

He informed training classes will be conducted on August 11 and 12 to Assembly level co-ordination committees. He said booth level committees will be appointed between August 21 and September 15 and presidents will be appointed for party village committees by September 15. 

Training classes will be conducted for the booth level committees from September 16 to 25 and massive campaign will be launched from October 2 to 28 with the slogan ‘Malli Congress’ which translates - Congress Once Again.

The APCC affairs chief said Indiramma door-to- door campaign will be launched in the state from October 31 to November 19. He appealed to the people not to commit suicide frustrated over the Centre not granting Special Category Status (SCS) and pointed out that the Congress would do it as soon as it comes to power at Delhi.

Executive committee meeting was presided over by PCC chief N Raghuveera Reddy. Former Union ministers Panabaka Lakshmi, J D Seelam, Kotla Suryaprakasha Reddy, former MP Kanumuri Bapiraju, former speaker Nadendla Manohar, and leaders N Tulasi Reddy, Vatti Vasantha Kumar and C Ramachandraiah were among those who attended the meeting.