Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (JD)
Udupi, Sep 17: Newly appointed Udupi District Congress president Kishan Hegde Kolkebailu said that every decision he takes will not be that of a Congress president, but that of an ordinary party worker. He was speaking after formally assuming charge as the new district Congress president at the District Congress office in Brahmagiri here on Thursday.
Kishan Hegde said he would never forget the opportunity and honour given to him by the Congress party. He assured that he would work to reach out to every last party worker and remain accessible to them.
“I am an example that with patience and perseverance, one can earn any responsibility in the Congress party,” he said.
He said that instead of limiting his views and ideas to party platforms, he would prefer to visit the homes of party workers and share them directly with them. Maintaining continuous contact with workers and responding to their views and concerns would be among his priorities, he added.
Former district Congress president Ashok Kumar Kodavoor formally handed over the charge to Kishan Hegde Kolkebailu.
KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary said the occasion was not merely a transfer of power but a transfer of responsibility. He said that earlier, party leaders were appointed after obtaining the opinions of local leaders, whereas the new president was selected after taking the views of party workers into consideration.
He urged the new leadership to respond to the needs of every party worker without discrimination. The Congress office should remain accessible to workers round the clock, he said.
Bhandary called for greater focus on strengthening the party organisation in view of the upcoming Gram Panchayat, Taluk Panchayat and Zilla Panchayat elections. He stressed the need to take workers into confidence and strengthen the party from the grassroots level.
Outgoing district Congress president Ashok Kumar Kodavoor thanked all party workers for their cooperation during his seven-year-and-seven-month tenure. He assured that he would extend his full cooperation to the new president in strengthening the party organisation.
KPCC Campaign Committee president Vinay Kumar Sorake, former MP Jayaprakash Hegde, Coastal Development Authority chairman M A Gafoor, former MLA Gopal Poojary, Udupi Block Congress Committee president Ramesh Kanchan, Campaign Committee president Alevoor Harish Kini, Congress leaders Prasad Raj Kanchan, Hariprasad Rai, Veronica Cornelio, Vishwas Amin, Krishna Shetty Bajagoli, Dinesh Hegde Molahalli, Jyothi Hebbar, Prashanth Jattanna, Rajasekhar Kotyan, Roshni Oliver and others were present.