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No decision yet on PCC chief

BHUBANESWAR: The Congress continues to remain in disarray in the State with the party unable to put up an impressive performance either inside or outside the State Assembly as the main opposition party. Going by its performance in the recent months, it appears that the party has left enough space for the Bharatiya Janata Party to perform better.

The Congress continues to be a divided house since the party leaders authorised their party high command Sonia Gandhi in September last year to choose a new president for the Pradesh Congress Committee to replace former Union Minister K.P. Singh Deo.

No unity

The party has not been able to show unity on any major issue since then as many senior leaders were busy lobbying to in New Delhi to get PCC president post.

All that one hears from the party leaders for the past several months was that the AICC would soon appoint the new PCC chief.

Further, the scenario seems to be changing towards the worse.

Those aspiring for the top post in the party's State unit are now apprehensive that AICC may not consider appointing a new Pradesh Congress Committee president in the State in the near future as election schedule had been announced for five States.

With the appointment of PPC president getting delayed by the day, the party has not been able to take up any major issue against the Biju Janata Dal government.

Be it the mining scam, coal scam, dal procurement scam or payment of compensation to the farmers whose crop had been damaged due to unseasonal rains in December last, the party has failed to create trouble for Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on any of these issues.

No plan of action

With the party lacking any plan of action to play its role of an effective opposition, senior leaders of the party have been talking in different voices on major issues facing the people.

The Congress has as many as 27 members in the 147-member Assembly. But the party has also not able to put up a better performance than BJP, which has just five members.

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