A Rapid Response Force (RRF) will be set up in each state with at least five prominent lawyers to take up legal matters for the party in courts
NEW DELHI — In the wake of growing incidents of official machinery’s misuse, the Congress party’s Law, Human Rights and RTI Department has decided to expand at all the district levels across the country. There will be a team of at least five prominent lawyers in each administrative district to coordinate the activities and litigate on behalf of the party.
Disclosing this here on Wednesday, 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.
The meeting on Wednesday 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’ (RRF) in each state with at least five prominent lawyers who will take up legal matters for the party in courts in their respective states.
Dr Singhvi said 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.
The state-level RRF will comprise of a minimum of five senior persons who can take up cudgels on behalf of the Congress in actual legal matters in court, argue, and get relief, and get things moving inside the courtroom, he added.
