NEW DELHI: The AICC Law, Human Rights and RTI Department will be expanding at all the district levels across the country. There will be a team of at least five prominent lawyers in each administrative district of the country to coordinate the activities and litigate on behalf of the party.
Disclosing this , Chairman of the AICC Law, Human Rights and RTI Department Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that under the party’s expansion programme spearheaded by the senior leadership including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, the department will also be setting up units at the district level. “They will be our eyes and ears on the ground,” he said about the lawyers to be appointed at the district level.
Today’s meeting was attended, among others, by senior party leader Salman Khurshid and eleven state chairpersons who participated physically and virtually.
The department will also set up a ‘Rapid Response Force’ in each state with at least five prominent lawyers who will take up the legal matters in the court for the party in their respective states.
Dr Singhvi said that the meeting also decided to compile a comprehensive computerised directory of the members of the department from across the country in state-wise alphabetical order.
He disclosed that in order to involve and engage those who are not with the Congress party and are in the age group of 21 and 28 years, the department will launch an internship programme under which one or two such interns will be attached with each of the 127 MPs in the beginning. Later the internship programme will be extended at the MLA level also.
