Congress to deal with acts of indiscipline sternly

Shimla, March 22

The Congress has decided to act sternly with any act of indiscipline as the state Congress Disciplinary Committee today issued strict directives.

Former Rajya Sabha MP and chairperson of the State Congress Disciplinary Committee Viplove Thakur made it clear that acts of indiscipline will not be tolerated. “No party or for that matter family can move forward without discipline, so in future anybody found to be indulging in anti-party activities will be dealt with sternly,” she said here.

She said she had entrusted the responsibility of districts to members of the committee who will consider the complaints and present their report. After that, complaints will be decided on merit.

Viplove will look after discipline-related issues in Kangra and Shimla, Rohru MLA Mohan Lal Brakta will be in charge of Solan and Sirmaur and Kewal Singh Pathania will be responsible for Mandi and Hamirpur.

Chet Ram Thakur will look into complaint redressal of Kinnaur, Lahaul Spiti and Kullu and Sanjay Awasthi of Una, Chamba and Bilaspur. Sharmila Patial will be the coordinator. Thakur emphasized that if anyone who had applied for party ticket in municipal corporation elections and denied it and works against the party candidate, action will be taken.

Thakur said the decision taken in the meeting was that all the leaders and office bearers of the Congress and its front organizations /departments would give prior information of any of their political programmes to the concerned district and block Congress committee as well as the state Congress office.

She added that apart from this, if any leader, office bearer of the Congress and its front organizations go against any of the leader in the media or social media, it will also be considered as indiscipline and action would be taken against the person under party rules. — TNS

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