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Priority to youth in 2019 polls: Khuntia
AICC Secretary and In-charge for Telangana Congress affairs R C Khuntia has announced that the party would give priority to youth while giving tickets for next Assembly elections in the State in 2019.
The recently appointed In-charge for Congress affairs in Telangana expressed satisfaction over the functioning of TPCC leadership
Hyderabad: AICC Secretary and In-charge for Telangana Congress affairs R C Khuntia has announced that the party would give priority to youth while giving tickets for next Assembly elections in the State in 2019.
In an informal chat with media persons at Gandhi Bhavan here on Saturday, Khuntia has said Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi has been encouraging youth leaders in the party and they are being assigned various responsibilities. Therefore, he said that the Congress party would give top priority to young leaders while distributing tickets for the next elections. Importance would also be given to all frontal organisations.
Khuntia, who was in Hyderabad for the first time after getting appointed as the in-charge of Telangana Congress affairs, expressed satisfaction over the functioning of present leadership. He indirectly dismissed all the speculations about changes in State leadership and said Congress party would face next elections under the leadership of TPCC President Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, Jana Reddy and Mohamed Ali Shabbir.
He said Rahul Gandhi too was satisfied with the performance of TPCC. However, he said, he was not empowered to speak on party's Chief Ministerial candidate for next elections. Congress does not have the practice of announcing CM's candidate in advance and the decision is always taken by the newly elected MLAs in CLP meeting post elections.
The Congress in-charge claimed that the TRS has been losing its ground in Telangana. Describing TRS as a party with no morals, he said if Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was so convinced about his popularity, he should face by-elections by asking all defected leaders (MLAs) to resign from their posts. Stating that it was Congress president Sonia Gandhi who gave Telangana, he asked as to why KCR, along with his family members, visited Sonia Gandhi's residence to take a family photo if he himself had brought Telangana.
The Cong leader has also said that the BJP is not strong enough to win next elections in Telangana. Similarly, both TDP and YSRCP have lost relevance in the new State. He had already worked for the Congress party in almost all States, including Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. Therefore, Telangana's politics was not new for him. However, he said that no miracles should be expected from him immediately.
The party would discuss and finalise future strategy in TPCC's Executive Committee meeting to be held at Gandhi Bhavan on
Sunday. TPCC President Uttam Kumar Reddy, Leader of Opposition in Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir, Vice-President Dr Mallu Ravi and other leaders were present.
