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Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Amid the ongoing clamour for a change in leadership, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) today held discussions with as many as 36 leaders of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) and speculations are rife that the party might adopt the ‘1+3’ formula which it had unsuccessfully experimented in 2009.
The 1+3 formula was implemented during KP Singh Deo’s tenure wherein besides Deo at the helm, the party had appointed three other working presidents to be in charge of different parts of the State.
Though the final decision is yet to be made, Niranjan Patnaik is believed to be a front runner for the top post of OPCC, while the names which are doing the rounds for working presidents are Naba Kishore Das (Western Odisha), Pradeep Majhi (Southern Odisha) and Chiranjeeb Biswal (Coastal Odisha).
Moreover, senior leader Bhakta Das is likely to be appointed head of the party’s campaign committee.
However, on today’s meeting Patnaik said, “We were asked to wipe out personal egos and differences to strengthen the party and script a new history in the politics of Odisha. The high command has strictly said the party will not tolerate any sort of indiscipline.”
“Rahul Gandhi has strictly instructed us to work together and put the party’s interest first. All have promised and pledged their commitment to work for the party,” said former MP Pradeep Majhi.
The top brass of AICC wants to make its Odisha unit fighting-fit for the 2019 polls and thwart all the tall claims of BJD and BJP to win 120 and 123 seats respectively.
