New Delhi, Jun 15 : After winning the Lok Sabha elections on the plank of 'aam aadmi' (common man), Congress today asked partymen to shun all feudal titles which many of them use with their names.
The party has advised all its members at various levels to strike off feudal titles like Maharaja, Raja, Begum, Kunwar, Rajkumar, Shrimant or Maharani with immediate effect.
"Such feudal titles will henceforth not be on official records of the party at any level. This is an advice of the party to all Congress leaders and workers," AICC General Secretary and media department chief Janardan Dwivedi said when asked what the party was doing to stop such feudal practices.
Dwivedi denied that there was any immediate provocation for the move saying the party was contemplating it for a while now.
A senior party leader told Zeack that Congress was against this practice from the very beginning and the issue of dropping such titles denoting feudal values was being considered for quite some time.
"Congress had fought against Rajshahi in the past. A number of organisations like the Praja Mandal were constituted by the party in the fight against feudalism in the past. Keeping such titles, hence, did not symbolise Congress values," he said. Ze
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