TPCC to have a jumbo executive committee with over 100 office bearers; Revanth and Mahesh to meet high command on Cabinet expansion on May 30
The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) will soon have a jumbo executive committee with over 100 office bearers holding the positions of vice-presidents and general secretaries. However, the much-anticipated State Cabinet expansion has been pushed by at least a week as the deliberations on the induction of more Ministers could not be held on Monday as AICC chief Mallikarjun Kharge was not present in New Delhi.
Highly placed sources in the Congress said TPCC chief Mahesh Kumar Goud, who met Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Monday, discussed the composition of the TPCC executive committee. If everything goes right, the executive will be announced in the next two days.
'There will be at between 30-40 vice-presidents and at least 75 general secretaries. The idea is to recognise all those, who have worked hard for the party and ensured it came to power,' a top source told The Hindu on Monday.
Other office bearers of the TPCC executive and the District Congress Committee chiefs will be announced after few more days, sources said adding that due care has been taken to include all sections of the society giving social engineering an important place.
Meanwhile, Telangana Congress leaders led by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy will meet the high command once again in Delhi on the May 30 to continue discussions on Cabinet expansion.
Since Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge was not available in New Delhi on Monday, the meeting scheduled for the discussion on the Cabinet expansion has been postponed. The high command has instructed Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, TPCC president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud and senior leaders to visit Delhi again on the May 30.
Accompanied by Mr. Mahesh Kumar, the Chief Minister met with AICC General Secretary K.C. Venugopal in New Delhi on Sunday and deliberated upon the constitution of the new TPCC executive committee as well as Cabinet expansion.
Meanwhile, TPCC president Mahesh Kumar, who spoke to the media in New Delhi after meeting Mr. Rahul Gandhi, said that Mr. Gandhi had agreed to expand the State Cabinet at the earliest. He added that they had been urging the party high command to ensure representation for Backward Class (BC) leaders in the impending Cabinet expansion.
He said that he along with his family members paid a courtesy call on AICC leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi. 'I apprised him of steps being taken to strengthen the party in Telangana and urged him to take steps for Cabinet expansion, for which he assured to do so,' Mr. Mahesh Kumar said, adding that he had explained the Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan programmes being held in the State. 'Mr. Rahul Gandhi appreciated our programmes,' he said.
In response to a query about the allotment of ministership to BC legislators, Mr. Mahesh Kumar Goud said that they had been requesting party leaders to accord priority to BC leaders in the Cabinet.
Mr. Revanth Reddy returned to Hyderabad later in the evening.
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