CM, Dy CM miss Congress meeting called to introduce co-incharge

Several ministers, Chief Parliamentary Secretaries (CPSs) and MLAs skipped a meeting held at the Congress headquarters here today. While Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu missed it for health reasons, Deputy Chief Minster Mukesh Agnihotri and Education Minister Rohit Thakur were on tour. Other ministers had other programmes and engagements.

HPCC president Pratibha Singh had convened the meeting to introduce Vidit Chaudhary, All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary and newly appointed co-incharge of the party affairs in Himachal, to the party office-bearers and discuss other issues of the party and the government.

Chaudhary said that he would make all efforts to ensure that hardworking party workers get their due in the government. “Workers are the backbone of any party and it is only due to their strength that a party comes to power. The party workers should be heard and they should get full respect,” Chaudhary said while addressing office-bearers here.

Chaudhary said that his aim was to strengthen the party organisation and he would strongly take up its issues with the party high command. Pratibha said that loyal and hardworking workers need to given an opportunity in the state executive to strengthen the party. “People, who have been working for the party for a long time, should get a role in the state government,” she added.

She said that there was need to seriously introspect the reasons for the party’s defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. Ministers Chander Kumar, Rajesh Dharmani and Vikramaditya Singh; former ministers Kaul Singh Thakur and Rangeela Ram Rao; CPS Sanjay Awasthi and Ramlal Thakur also addressed the meeting. The leaders emphasised on making efforts to bringing the youth in the organisation.