UP Congress yet to pay employees' salary

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Biswajeet Banerjee | The News Minute | August 4, 2014 | 9.46 am IST The Congress in Uttar Pradesh is passing through a mess â€“ literally. It not only lost political ground to BJP in the last Lok Sabha elections but is also facing financial crisis so much so that it has failed to pay salaries to its staff. An employee of the Uttar Pradesh Congress headquarters housed in Nehru Bhawan said that their family members are starving because they have not been paid salary since June. The fund flow from the All India Congress Committee to the UPCC has almost stopped, creating problems for a strong contingent of nearly 110 ministerial staff. â€œWe have been told that Delhi is not sending money and therefore there is delay in payment of salaries,â€ one of the employees said. The financial crisis finds reflection in day-to-day working in the Congress office. Barring four, all SUVs have been parked on the UPCC office campus as the party does not have funds to provide fuel for these cars. This time the Roza Iftaar was a low key affair in Uttar Pradesh Congress office. The iftaar party was organized by collecting chanda (donations) from the party leaders. â€œProbably it was first time in the history of Uttar Pradesh Congress that chanda was collected for oragnising an official party function, â€œ a Congress leader said. The Congress is passing through a bad phase. The state president of party Nirmal Khatri has lost interest in his work after party received one of the worst electoral drubbings in Lok Sabha elections. There were indications that Khatri would be a replaced by someone more dynamic and pragmatic leader. The cut-off date was July 31 but nothing happened. The party leaders are also questioning the hasty decision of disbanding the UPCC and then delaying its reconstitution. It is the first time a statewide exercise is going on to elect district chiefs and then constitute the state committee and then the state president. â€œThe party is in a real mess. It is directionless. Khatri seldom comes to office. UPCC in-charge Madhusudan Mistry has failed to enthuse party workers. And now this financial crunch has added to the woes of the party,â€ a Congress leader said.

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