BHANDARI LASHES OUT AGAINST DISSIDENTS AND SDF GOVT
GANGTOK, 19 July: The Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee [SPCC] held a state-level meeting at Congress Bhawan here at Development Area today. Party supporters from all the four districts were present for the meeting during which the new 32-member executive body of the SPCC was officially introduced to the party members.
The PCC has Nar Bahadur Bhandari as president, assisted by sic vice-presidents in Major T Gyatso, Kunga Nima Lepcha, Acharya Tshering Lama, Yuva Raj Rai, Pema Kinzing and Lalit Adikari. The new district presidents of the party are BB Basnet [East], Buddhi Bal Gurung [West], Gayching Bhutia [North] and Deepak Sharma [South]. LB Chauhan has been appointed the INTUC president and Em Prasad Sharma, JB Darnal, Anil Lachenpa, Lobsang Bhutia and DB Basnet officiate as general secretaries.
Mr. Bhandari, in his address today, dismissed the village-to-village tour of the Chief Minister as a ‘futile exercise’, arguing that the campaign had failed in its objective since people at the grassroots level had still not benefitted.
“The CM is only meeting people whom the panchayats want him to meet. These panchayats have no obligation towards the people since they were not elected by the people and were politically selected. The village to village tour is just a political gimmick of the SDF party aimed at amending its growing unpopularity because of rampant corruption,” the SPCC president said.
He also alleged that the Panchayati Raj Institutions in Sikkim were working more for the ruling party and not enough for the people. He announced today that should Congress form the Government in Sikkim, it will do away with the party-based format of panchayat elections.
Further, the SPCC president also accused the SDF leadership of claiming centrally sponsored schemes as the ruling party’s own plans and also alleged rampant ‘discrimination’ and ‘political victimization’ in the implementation of these schemes.
Nepotism, he alleged, had compromised many centrally sponsored schemes in Sikkim and rued that party-affiliation had become the primary decider for selecting beneficiaries.
Commenting on recent instances of dissidence among SPCC party workers, he remarked that despite a clear-cut letter from the party high-command revoking the expulsion of dissident PCC members led by former Minister KN Upreti, the feud within the Pradesh Congress continues.
No one from that dissident camp attended today’s meeting.
Mr. Bhandari also claimed today that Mr. Upreti and others were no longer even primary members of the party since they did not get their memberships renewed.
Also today, 33 new members, presented as converts from the SDF camp, joined the Congress- 22 from Namthang, South Sikkim and 11 youth from Yangthang, West Sikkim.
GANGTOK, 19 July: The Sikkim Pradesh Congress Committee [SPCC] held a state-level meeting at Congress Bhawan here at Development Area today. Party supporters from all the four districts were present for the meeting during which the new 32-member executive body of the SPCC was officially introduced to the party members.
The PCC has Nar Bahadur Bhandari as president, assisted by sic vice-presidents in Major T Gyatso, Kunga Nima Lepcha, Acharya Tshering Lama, Yuva Raj Rai, Pema Kinzing and Lalit Adikari. The new district presidents of the party are BB Basnet [East], Buddhi Bal Gurung [West], Gayching Bhutia [North] and Deepak Sharma [South]. LB Chauhan has been appointed the INTUC president and Em Prasad Sharma, JB Darnal, Anil Lachenpa, Lobsang Bhutia and DB Basnet officiate as general secretaries.
Mr. Bhandari, in his address today, dismissed the village-to-village tour of the Chief Minister as a ‘futile exercise’, arguing that the campaign had failed in its objective since people at the grassroots level had still not benefitted.
“The CM is only meeting people whom the panchayats want him to meet. These panchayats have no obligation towards the people since they were not elected by the people and were politically selected. The village to village tour is just a political gimmick of the SDF party aimed at amending its growing unpopularity because of rampant corruption,” the SPCC president said.
He also alleged that the Panchayati Raj Institutions in Sikkim were working more for the ruling party and not enough for the people. He announced today that should Congress form the Government in Sikkim, it will do away with the party-based format of panchayat elections.
Further, the SPCC president also accused the SDF leadership of claiming centrally sponsored schemes as the ruling party’s own plans and also alleged rampant ‘discrimination’ and ‘political victimization’ in the implementation of these schemes.
Nepotism, he alleged, had compromised many centrally sponsored schemes in Sikkim and rued that party-affiliation had become the primary decider for selecting beneficiaries.
Commenting on recent instances of dissidence among SPCC party workers, he remarked that despite a clear-cut letter from the party high-command revoking the expulsion of dissident PCC members led by former Minister KN Upreti, the feud within the Pradesh Congress continues.
No one from that dissident camp attended today’s meeting.
Mr. Bhandari also claimed today that Mr. Upreti and others were no longer even primary members of the party since they did not get their memberships renewed.
Also today, 33 new members, presented as converts from the SDF camp, joined the Congress- 22 from Namthang, South Sikkim and 11 youth from Yangthang, West Sikkim.
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