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Ironically, at a time when many youths came to register themselves for the party membership at the state Congress headquarters Bidhan Bhavan, senior Congress leaders, including Sankar Singha, Pradip Ghosh and Nirved Roy, were busy protesting against the state leadership.
Manas Bhuniya was nominated West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president on June 27, after Pranab Mukherjee quit the post.
Singha, former Congress president of Nadia district, slammed Bhuniya for being close to the CPM.
“If democracy is not restored in the party then there will be more such movements,” he said.
Ghosh, another leader from north Kolkata, said: “Any attempt to impose a state president on us will not be tolerated.”
He said that when Youth Congress will elect its leaders, this process should be followed also in the parent party — Congress.
Though former working president of the Congress Pradip Bhattacharya was not present during the protest, he is reportedly supporting the cause.
Most of the protesting leaders had been sidelined during the district-level elections.
On July 26, 17 district presidents of the Congress had been removed. Many of them approached the party leadership in Delhi, but failed to achieve any result.
Meanwhile, Bhuniya described the incident as “detrimental and humiliating to the party”.
He said: “This will hamper the prospects of the youth Congress recruitment drive. I do not know why the leaders organised such a provocative camp when they already had a meeting with Rahul Gandhi.”
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Let entire Pradesh congress in the state be kept in suspended animation till Assebbly polls as if there's no Congress party in the state.Let the leaders settle their scores and then reappear in politcal scene.It's better not to make themselves laughing stock to the electorate, much to the delightment of Didi.