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Rajanna Flags Missing Women Representation in Congress District Appointments
K.N. Rajanna is a Congress politician from Karnataka.
The party recently appointed presidents for 35 district units.
Rajanna said no woman was chosen for any of these posts.
He also said only eight appointees came from backward classes.
He believes the party should improve its social representation.
Rajanna discussed these concerns with senior Congress leaders in Bengaluru.
B.K. Hariprasad said he was aware of the shortcomings and would inform the national leadership.
Rajanna also said he plans to contest a Lok Sabha election in the future, but not the next Assembly election.
Congress MLA K.N. Rajanna objected to the appointment of 35 district party presidents.
He said none of the newly appointed district presidents was a woman.
Rajanna said only eight of the 35 appointees belonged to backward classes and questioned their social representation.
He raised the concerns during meetings with B.K. Hariprasad and G. Parameshwara in Bengaluru.
Rajanna said he does not plan to contest the next Assembly election but intends to contest a future Lok Sabha election.
- Who
- Former Karnataka minister and Congress MLA K.N. Rajanna raised the concerns with B.K. Hariprasad and G. Parameshwara.
- What
- Rajanna objected to the lack of women and adequate backward-class representation among 35 newly appointed Congress district presidents.
- Where
- Bengaluru, during meetings at the residences of G. Parameshwara and B.K. Hariprasad.
- When
- Tuesday; the articles do not provide an exact date.
- Why
- Rajanna said the appointments lacked sufficient representation and that proper social engineering had not been carried out.
Rajanna's Concerns
Party Leadership Response
Representation in district appointments
Rajanna's Concerns
Rajanna said the appointments excluded women and provided inadequate representation to backward classes, with only eight of 35 appointees from those communities.
Party Leadership Response
Hariprasad acknowledged that there were shortcomings and said he would convey Rajanna's concerns to the party's national leadership.
Social engineering
Rajanna's Concerns
Rajanna argued that proper social engineering had not been carried out even among the eight backward-class appointees.
Party Leadership Response
The article does not report a detailed public response from the party leadership on the specific social-engineering criticism.
Key facts
- District appointments
- Presidents were appointed for 35 Congress district units.
- Women appointed
- Rajanna said none of the 35 district presidents was a woman.
- Backward-class representation
- Rajanna said eight of the 35 appointees belonged to backward classes.
- Meetings
- Rajanna met B.K. Hariprasad and G. Parameshwara in Bengaluru.
- Leadership response
- Hariprasad reportedly said he was aware of the shortcomings and would convey them to the national leadership.
- Rajanna's election plans
- He said he would not contest the next Assembly election but would contest a Lok Sabha election in the future.
Quotes
K.N. Rajanna
Former Karnataka minister and Congress MLA
“I told him that among the 35 party district presidents appointed recently, there is no woman candidate. I asked him to bring these shortcomings to the notice of AICC General Secretary and Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala and AICC General Secretary (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal, who are arriving in Bengaluru today.”
thehansindia.com
“I have been in this movement for 50 years. Contesting for a position is secondary for me. My interest is in cooperative institutions, particularly an institution like Apex Bank, which should work in tune with the government.”
thehansindia.com
Sources
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