For the first time after Jitu Patwari became the state Congress president in the Madhya Pradesh Congress office, meetings of the Political Affairs Committee, State Executive, Permanent Invitees and Special Invitees were held in PCC on Thursday. All the big leaders of the state Congress were absent in these meetings. Many big leaders including former Chief Minister Digvijay Singh, Kamal Nath, Arun Yadav, Ajay Singh, Kamleshwar Patel did not reach the meeting. At the same time, in the middle of the meeting, some workers raised slogans outside the office demanding a place for grassroots leaders in the executive. Before joining this meeting, Congress state in-charge Bhanwar Jitendra Singh said that the meeting will discuss how to work in the district, block, division sector. Many political topics will also be discussed in this meeting. How the government is working, the public is troubled, the situation is bad regarding law and order, apart from this there are many other issues.

State in-charge gave clarification on the absence of big leaders

Giving clarification on the absence of many big leaders in the meeting, state in-charge Jitendra Bhanwar Singh said that many leaders are not able to attend this meeting due to marriage. All of them have been asked to join through video conferencing or virtually. Before the meeting started, State Congress President Jitu Patwari welcomed all the leaders involved in the Political Affairs Committee by giving them bouquets. Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh did not attend this meeting.

Former minister said - now nothing will happen by shedding tears

In the first working committee meeting of PCC Chief Jitu Patwari, the distance of former Kamal Nath, Digvijay Singh, Leader of Opposition Umang Singhar, Meenakshi Natarajan, Ajay Singh, Govind Singh, Arun Yadav reflected the pain of Jitu Patwari and he became emotional. Former minister Vijayalakshmi Sadho advised Congress state president Jeetu Patwari that nothing is going to happen by being disappointed and shedding tears. Now we have to think about how the Congress government will come. Talking to the media after the meeting, former minister Sajjan Verma said that Jeetu Patwari got emotional in the meeting. These were not artificial tears. Jeetu Patwari has become the president in difficult times, he has asked for help from everyone in the meeting. We are all united, there is no division in the party.

Ward Congress Committee will be formed in urban body areas

In the meetings, there was a deep brainstorming by discussing the strengthening of the Congress organization from booth, mandal, sector, block to district and state level. In the meeting, there was a discussion on the formation of ward Congress committees in all the urban body areas of the state, after the formation of ward Congress committee, Mohalla Congress Committee, in which 30 to 40 houses will be included in each booth, in which the members of Mohalla Congress Committee will be the members of the booth committee. At the same time, there was a discussion on the formation of Gram Panchayat Congress Committee at every Gram Panchayat level and the members of the Gram Panchayat will be the members of the Booth Committee.

State Congress representatives' convention will be held in 2025

In the meeting, the tenure of the presidents of Block Congress Committee and District Congress Committees and filling up of vacant posts of PCC and AICC delegates were discussed. An important decision was taken in the meeting that the convention of State Congress representatives will be held between 20 February to 20 March 2025. At the same time, the training program of Congress officials at different levels was discussed along with the determination of their responsibilities and the role of workers.