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Rajasthan
By Our Special Correspondent
JAIPUR, JAN. 17 .The outgoing Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (I) president, Girija Vyas, has welcomed the party high command's choice of her successor, Narain Singh. "He is a grassroot level worker and a senior leader who has been MLA six times. The party will definitely benefit from his leadership,'' Dr.Vyas, who addressed mediapersons on the eve of the takeover of the post by the new incumbent, said. "The new PCC (I) president is a grassroot level worker. He also happens to be from the farming community,'' Dr.Vyas noted. As for her, Dr.Vyas, presently Member of Parliament from Udaipur, said she would fully concentrate on the party's preparations for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. "We are not escaping from our responsibility,'' she said referring to the outgoing team in the PCC (I). "Changes are inevitable. Five years is a long period for anyone to be the PCC (I) president,'' Dr.Vyas said revealing that she had put in her papers on December 5 last, the day after the unfavourable Assembly results for the party in Rajasthan. Dr.Vyas, who claimed that the people wanted the Congress to be in power at the Centre, said even in the Assembly elections the party had polled only 3.75 per cent less than last time. She was quitting with the consolation that she had work dedicatedly for the party in the State during the past five years, at times putting in 18 hours, she said. Though not giving any the details of the party's debacle in the State, Dr.Vyas termed "overconfidence'' as a major reason. "The workers as well as people in general thought the Congress was coming back to power in Rajasthan and took the victory for granted,'' she noted.
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