Congress to focus on organisation in 2025, says Mallikarjuna Kharge

Bengaluru: The year 2025 will be Congress' year of organisational empowerment, AICC president Mallikarjuna Kharge said on Thursday, calling for efforts to increase the party's organisational strength in response to the demand from people who have lost hope in the current NDA regime.

Addressing the extended Congress working Committee (CWC) meeting in Belagavi, Kharge reminded the party's top leaders of the discussions they had at the previous meeting on November 29-that they had decided to actively fight the atmosphere of disappointment Haryana and Maharashtra election results created.

The CWC held its meeting in Belagavi to commemorate the centenary of the Congress session Mahatma Gandhi had chaired in the north Karnataka city.


Kharge pledged to fill all vacant posts in the organisation and implement the Udaipur declaration to make the party combat-ready to win elections at all levels.

He urged partymen to identify young people who were ideologically committed and ready to protect the Constitution, and bring them into the mainstream.

The veteran Congress leader said hard work alone was not enough. A time-bound and solid strategy and direction are necessary. There is a need to bring forth local and new leadership, he said. "We have the power of ideas, the legacy of Gandhi-Nehru and the heritage of great leaders. We will return from Belgaum with a new message and new resolve," he said.

Communal hatred

Kharge referred to Gandhi's message and emphasis on communal harmony and alleged that now, after 100 years, the ruling party and its leaders are openly giving provocative slogans and their top leaders are spoiling the harmony in society, spreading hatred between communities. "They are working to make people fight," he said.

Congress would continue to fight for the ideology of Nehru-Gandhi and for Baba Saheb, Kharge said, while accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not being ready to accept the mistake home minister Amit Shah committed with his comments on B R Ambedkar.