Congress considering power decentralisation in ticket distribution, says Pawan Khera | India News

THE CONGRESS is considering a proposal to decentralise powers in ticket distribution for elections, said party’s media and publicity department chairman Pawan Khera following a meeting of district Congress leaders from 13 states and three UTs at the new party headquarters in Delhi on Thursday.

A total of 338 DCC (District Congress Committee) office-bearers attended the meeting. The meeting came amid the Congress’s “efforts to shift to a more decentralised organisational model in which the party’s district units are more autonomous”.

Khera said the proposal to give a role to the DCCs in ticket distribution for elections was received “favourably” at the meeting and that “in the days to come, there will be some announcements”. “The party is working to make DCCs financially empowered so they can implement programmes of the AICC and PCC. The AICC is going to take some decisions for the DCCs to be economically empowered,” he said.

The meeting was chaired by party president Mallikarjun Kharge. Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and general secretary K C Venugopal also present.

Asad Rehman is with the national bureau of The Indian Express and covers politics and policy focusing on religious minorities in India. A journalist for over eight years, Rehman moved to this role after covering Uttar Pradesh for five years for The Indian Express.

During his time in Uttar Pradesh, he covered politics, crime, health, and human rights among other issues. He did extensive ground reports and covered the protests against the new citizenship law during which many were killed in the state.

During the Covid pandemic, he did extensive ground reporting on the migration of workers from the metropolitan cities to villages in Uttar Pradesh. He has also covered some landmark litigations, including the Babri Masjid-Ram temple case and the ongoing Gyanvapi-Kashi Vishwanath temple dispute.

Prior to that, he worked on The Indian Express national desk for three years where he was a copy editor.

Rehman studied at La Martiniere, Lucknow and then went on to do a bachelor’s degree in History from Ramjas College, Delhi University. He also has a Masters degree from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. … Read More