Generational shift ongoing process in Congress: Pilot ahead of AICC session

Ahead of the AICC session in Ahmedabad, Congress general secretary Sachin Pilot on Sunday said a generational shift was underway in the party with young leaders living up to the tasks entrusted to them, and asserted that accountability as well as strengthening of ideology would be the watchwords going forward. Pilot said the All India Congress Committee session taking place in Gujarat is significant as it comes at a time when the focus is on strengthening the party in that state and restoring its past glory there. Pilot said the focus was on organisational reforms, filling up of vacant posts and making sure the party sticks to the Udaipur declaration by giving young people more political power. "How to sharpen it, how to strengthen it, how to get more young people join the Congress fold is obviously a constant effort from the top leadership.The BJP has used central agencies to subjugate, defame, threaten, lure and character assassinate leaders from the opposition, especially from the Congress," he said.