Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Harshwardhan Sapkal. File
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The Maharashtra Congress is set to start overhaul of its organisational on the grassroot stage by its Sangathan Srujan Abhiyan amid criticism amongst employees over the dearth of celebration organisation and dominance of repeat faces.
The change will embrace the first-ever collection of the taluka (block) president.
As a part of the train, the celebration is finalising the record of 72 district presidents throughout the State, and in a departure from previous practices, the marketing campaign may even embrace appointments on the taluka stage, protecting 675 talukas. Selecting taluka stage president is an initiative of State unit chief Harshwardhan Sapkal.
Under the brand new mannequin, taluka Congress presidents will likely be appointed together with heads of ten frontal organisations and departments at every taluka, together with Youth Congress, NSUI, Mahila Congress and Seva Dal, in addition to representatives from OBC, SC, ST, VJNT, minority and social media wings.
State observers have been tasked with recommending a minimum of three names for every submit, with the ultimate resolution to be taken by the celebration management. The initiative is predicted to present organisational tasks to greater than 7,000 celebration employees, widening the management base inside the celebration.
“The exercise will prioritise youth leadership and aim to enhance representation of OBCs, Dalits, Adivasis, minorities and women in the organisational structure. Congress will work on two principles for next few years. One is building organization on basis of ideology and fighting for people’s problems due to failures of the Union and Maharashtra governments,” Mr. Sapkal stated. It may even strengthen the celebration for the 2029 (meeting and Lok Sabha) polls, he added.
Presidents of 45 of 60 organisational districts of the celebration in the State are set to get replaced, whereas chiefs of 12 newly created organisational districts will likely be appointed.
The celebration has set a goal to appoint round 8,000 new workplace bearers, together with district and taluka presidents, inside the subsequent two months, Mr. Sapkal stated.
“The Congress is currently implementing the ‘Sangathan Srujan’ (organizational restructuring) programme in Maharashtra. For this, one observer from Delhi has been sent to each district. These observers will submit panels of names for the new presidents to the central leadership, which will then finalise the appointments,” he stated.
All those that have served as district presidents for 5 years or extra will likely be changed with new faces.
“There is no opposition to making new appointments. Leaders who have held the post for many years are themselves insisting that new faces should be given a chance. The objective is not to remove existing district presidents, but to provide opportunities to new leadership,” Mr. Sapkal stated.
Published – April 06, 2026 02:20 am IST
