Cong yet to come upto expectations in MP: Ajay

Bhopal, June 20 (UNI) Congress Madhya Pradesh unit Vice-President Ajay Singh has admitted that his party has not been able to properly fulfill its role as the state's main opposition.

In a discussion with UNI, the MLA made an oblique reference to the delay in declaring the state executive while adding that the indecisiveness over the Congress' organisational form could be the chief reason behind it.

''The Congress is not a cadre-based but a mass-based party.

Therefore, the organisation and its form's role assume cardinal importance. The party's role as a powerful opposition has not been effective but the Congress will make an emphatic return when the time is ripe and silence critics,'' the former minister said.

Responding to a query, Mr Singh admitted that fresh enthusiasm would be injected into workers if party leaders Digvijay Singh, Suresh Pachouri and Kamal Nath -- who represent Madhya Pradesh in central politics -- jointly sound the bugle for next year's assembly poll campaign.

Denying that the Congress position weakened due to factionalism among leaders, he said, ''differences of opinion are natural in any party but the Congress is far from the quicksand of groupism. The high command's attitude towards this state is not one of neglect. It may seem that Madhya Pradesh is not on the central leadership's radar but the situation will change after the Presidential election.'' Maintaining that the country's politics was undergoing a tranformation, Mr Singh added that young voters were preferring youthful public representatives.

''The number of such voters is high in this state and no political party can ignore them. The key issue against the ruling BJP will be corruption,'' he said.

UNI