New Delhi, Jan 7: Senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Wednesday announced that the party’s Law, RTI and Human Rights department will be expanding at all the district levels across the country and that 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.
Singhvi, who is an eminent jurist and the chairman of the party’s Law, Human Rights and RTI Department addressing the media here said 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,” the Rajya Sabha member said about the lawyers to be appointed at the district level.
He also asserted that today’s meeting was attended, among others, by senior party leader Salman Khurshid and eleven state chairpersons who participated physically and virtually.
He said that 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.
Singhvi said that today’s 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.
