Rahul Gandhi meets West Bengal leaders to hear views on way forward for 2019

NEW DELHI: Congress president, Rahul Gandhi on Friday held individual conferences with birthday party leaders from West Bengal, in a bid to seek out techniques to give a boost to the dwindling state unit in a year main as much as the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The three-hour-long interactions were held within the backdrop of 2 major issues on which the Congress prime command is anticipated to take decisions, to gear it up for 2019, given that chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress has almost demolished the birthday party’s organisational presence within the state.

The two an important issues that central prime command has to come to a decision on are – whether or not to modify the Congress leadership within the state held by Adhir Ranjan Chaudhury and whether or not Congress will opt for an alliance with the ruling TMC or the Left Front within the state to beat the Narendra Modi-led BJP within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

While no decision was once taken on either of the an important issues on Friday, Rahul Gandhi along with Assam MP Gaurav Gogoi, who's the newly appointed central birthday party in-charge for Bengal, took comments personally from about 40-0dd leaders from the state including Chaudhury and previous PCC chiefs, former MPs like Deepa Dasmunshi, chief of opposition within the state assembly Abdul Mannan, MPs and MLAs to lend a hand reach a call.

Since the state unit is a divided lot, one phase of the birthday party is enthusiastic about an alliance with the Trinamool Congress within the upcoming common elections, whilst the other phase favours a tie-up with the Left.

“Rahul Gandhi met each birthday party chief personally and heard their perspectives on easy methods to give a boost to the birthday party. Each folks gave him their perspective on the way forward and for strengthening the birthday party within the state,” stated Chowdhury.

“I have already made my view clear to the birthday party leadership on how the ruling TMC is helping the BJP to develop within the state and that the rising communal politics within the state needs to be resisted,” stated Mannan, who was once instrumental within the ultimate Congress-Left alliance within the state.

Most MLAs are learnt to have informed the Rahul Gandhi that Gogoi will have to spend extra time within the state and cover the entire districts to get the proper picture. “We have informed the Congress chief in regards to the flooring situation,” legislator and AICC secretary Moinuddin Haq added. Haq, birthday party insiders stated, strongly favours an alliance with the Trinamool Congress and maintains that it is going to be suicidal to enter into an alliance with CPM, which has misplaced its base within the state.

He is vulnerable to sign up for the TMC along with different MLAs and leaders from the state on July 21, a birthday party source stated. Some state Congress leaders have already made up our minds at a meeting within the state on June 30 that the Congress will be finished if it does not best friend with the TMC, they stated. However, Haq refuted speculations of him becoming a member of TMC.