Nagpur: Every political party is gearing up for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Various responsibilities are being entrusted upon party senior leaders. On the same lines, All India Congress Committee (AICC) has appointed co-ordinators for the Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra.
The Party has appointed Lok Sabha co-ordinators in Vidarbha too. While making the appointments, the party has interchanged the leaders of respective constituencies. For example, Virendra Jagtap from Chandur Railway, Amravati, has been appointed as coordinator for Nagpur. Chandrakant Handore from Mumbai has been appointed as the coordinator for Amravati constituency which is reserved for Scheduled Caste. Vasant Purke, former Education Minister who hails from Yavatmal, will take care of Akola Lok Sabha constituency as coordinator.
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Ranjeet Kamble, ex-Minister from Wardha is the coordinator for Buldhana, while North Nagpur MLA Dr Nitin Raut has been given the responsibility of Wardha. Amravati’s Dr Sunil Deshmukh has been given the responsibility of Ramtek Lok Sabha constituency which is reserved for the Scheduled Caste. Satish Chaturvedi, former minister, will take care of Chandrapur, and Subhash Dhote will take care of coordination for Yavatmal-Washim.
Nana Gawande and Adv Abhijeet Wanjari, MLC have been appointed as coordinators of Bhandara-Gondia and Gadchiroli-Chimur (ST) respectively. Similarly, Vidarbha’s Adv Charulata Tokas, Yashomati Thakur, Vijay Wadettiwar (Leader of Opposition), Dr Wajahat Mirza have been asked to handle Raigad, Jalgaon, Nanded, and Jalna respectively.
Meeting of district committees in Nagpur on Jan 20
Ramesh Chennithala, the newly appointed in-charge for Maharashtra, has convened a meeting of all district Congress committees on January 20 at Nagpur. This is the third time that Congress is holding some important meeting at Nagpur within a period of three months. Congress is giving lot of importance to Nagpur, the most important city in Vidarbha Region.
Recently Nagpur had witnessed a maha rally addressed by senior leader Rahul Gandhi, AICC chief Mallikarjun Kharge, in the city. Before this rally, in October, the party had convened all district committees’ meetings in the city. Reports said that Congress is giving a lot of focus on Vidarbha. Most parties are paying more attention to the constituencies in Mumbai and Western Maharashtra except Bharatiya Janata Party. Both the constituent parties of both alliances (Shiv Sena and NCP) are not paying much attention towards Vidarbha. Against this backdrop, Congress has hopes of getting some good leads in Vidarbha as it will have BJP as the only competitor.
Also the importance of Nagpur is that it has the headquarters of RSS and hence Congress is trying to put-up a show of strength in the former’s backyard. The venue of the Nagpur meeting has not been finalised yet.
