Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Feb 17: There is information that national Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has cleared the proposal mooted by former chief minister of Karnataka Siddarmaiaah to organize community-wise conventions in an effort to bring the Congress back to power in the state.

Sources claimed that Rahul has advised Siddaramaiah to take into confidence all the senior party leaders from the state including the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president, and care should be taken to see that a message that these conventions are not an alternative to the party itself is conveyed clearly.

Rahul reportedly said that there is no objection to the participation in conventions that are organized or planned to be organized to lend voice to the problems and pains of certain communities. He reportedly assured Siddaramiah that he would discuss the issue with Sonia Gandhi and obtain her concurrence for the same.

Siddaramaiahi convinced Rahul that organization of such conventions is imperative to win back the trust of the communities that have distanced themselves from the party and also in the interests of the upcoming zilla and taluk panchayat elections and assembly election as they help in building the party's organizational structure.

It was decided to take each step carefully in the light of the fact that debates and agitations about reservations have given rise to a sense of apprehension in some communities. It is learnt that the issue of uniting the backward classes, minorities and dalit communities, also cropped up during the discussionks.

Senior Congress leaders, Ghulam Nabi Azad, K C Venugopal and A K Antonky also met Siddaramaiah and held discussions with him.