Congress struggles with monetary disaster, asks members to contribute

The monetary place of the Congress social gathering has reached a vital level put up its 2014 political marginalisation. The grand previous social gathering, which has been struggling to make ends meet, has now despatched out SOS messages to the social gathering loyalists to return to its rescue.
In truth, if experiences are to be believed, the prospects of the social gathering is so unpropitious that these days every time the social gathering leaders meet on the AICC conferences, aside from organizational issues just like the nomination of state presidents, the prime matter of debate is the funds of the social gathering. “Finances have been a focus area during recent meetings,” an AICC chief has been quoted as saying.
According to experiences, the highest Party managers had met, all of the ministers of Punjab, Jharkhand and Maharashtra and a few organisational members, individually final month to debate the problem. The ministers and social gathering associates have been briefed in regards to the social gathering’s precarious monetary state of affairs and requested to take up the accountability to enhance the social gathering’s monetary image.
For the grand previous social gathering, there are some things that are of speedy concern. Firstly, it’s the upcoming meeting elections in 5 states – Kerala, Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, for which the social gathering requires immediate fund mobilisation. Secondly, the brand new Congress headquarters within the National capital which is beneath building for a while now. For this too, the social gathering requires a beneficiant quantity of funds, which the social gathering in the meanwhile is within the dearth of. While BJP has moved to the headquarters constructed by it, Congress continues to function from the federal government bungalow in Delhi.
Foreseeably, the Congress social gathering, together with an existential disaster has additionally been going by way of a serious monetary disaster post-2014 ballot debacle. It is a longtime incontrovertible fact that the power to generate political funding from non-public donors relies upon largely on a celebration’s political energy and resilience. And, sadly, the grand previous social gathering now has governments in solely Punjab, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh whereas it’s tottering on the brink within the poll-bound Puducherry. Though it’s a part of ruling coalitions in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, the main target there may be totally on the lead gamers within the alliances like Shiv Sena, NCP and JMM.
Owing to its desperation to prevail over the intense disaster, it’s learnt that the Congress social gathering moreover plans to ask its elected representatives all through the nation for contributions.
Donation to the Congress social gathering fund slips in 2019-20, Sonia and Rahul Gandhi contribute lower than a number of social gathering leaders
Earlier we reported, how the donation to the Congress social gathering fund in 2019-2020 had additionally seen a pointy decline as in comparison with the earlier 12 months. Congress gathered Rs 139.01 crore in contributions in 2019-2020. This is a big dip from final years assortment of Rs 146 crore.
Moreover, what was extraordinary in regards to the ECI report on Congress’ contribution for 2019-20, was that the members of the Gandhi household, which has been working the present for the reason that inception of the social gathering, have seemed to be essentially the most close-fisted. In truth, the 23 senior leaders of the social gathering invariably referred to as the G-23 had made a lot bigger contributions than the social gathering president Sonia Gandhi who contributed Rs 50,000 to the social gathering fund, whereas her son and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi donated Rs 54,000.