Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Dec 24: All India Congress Committee observers deputed to the state have expressed their opinion that in Karnataka, Vokkaliga, Dalit and Lingayat communities have drifted away from the Congress fold.

The report submitted by them has said to have observed that in certain constituencies, charisma of individual candidates have worked in their favour, and the party has fallen from the grace of the above communities in most of the constituencies. The report says that the BJP has succeeded in winning over the confidence of these communities and therefore swept the recent bypoll. The observers want the national leadership of the Congress to draw up measures to bring back these communities into the party fold.

The observers deputed by the high command of the party Madhudan Mistry and Bhakt Charandas, have come to the above conclusion. They had been sent here specifically to look into the resignations tendered by Siddaramaiah, leader of the Congress legislature party and leader of the opposition in the assembly, and president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, Dinesh Gundu Rao.

The report particularly mentions veteran Congress loyalists like Veerappa Moily B K Hariprasad and K H Muniyappa, all of whom lost the recent Lok Sabha election, telling them that the party needs to take all the communities into confidence and that the practice of concentration of power and decisions being taken by a single person should be done away with. They also believe that the party can win over the confidence of the party workers and the general public if original Congressmen are in important positions, reports said.

The party, in tune with the contents of the report, is likely to take steps to give positions of importance in the organizational set up to leaders from the above three communities and also Muslims and backward classes by distributing positions like the leaders of the opposition in the assembly and council, Congress legislature party leader, KPCC president, and positions in All India Congress Committee among others.