Udaipur: To make the party battle-ready for upcoming electoral challenges, the Congress on Sunday announced wide-ranging organisational reforms, including ‘one family, one ticket’ and ‘one person, one post’ norms and a cap of five years on holding a party post.

However, the party has added a caveat to the ‘one family, one ticket’ formula stating that if another member in one’s family is politically active, then only after five years of organisational experience that person should be considered eligible for a Congress ticket.

The party also said a group should be formed by the Congress president from amongst the members of the Congress Working Committee which should give suggestions to the party chief from time to time to take decisions on important matters and help in the implementation of key decisions.

In the Congress’ ‘Nav Sankalp’ declaration that was adopted at the end of the three-day ‘Chintan Shivir’ here, the party also decided to set up a public insight department, a national training institute and an election management department.

Asserting that the organisation and grassroots workers of the Congress are the real strength of the party, the declaration said that in the next 90 to 180 days, accountability should be ensured by filling up all vacancies at block, district, state and national levels.

The party also decided to establish intermediary ‘Mandal Congress Committees” between booth and block committees.

The Congress will set up a public insight department so that the Congress leadership can get “rational feedback” for knowing the views of the public on different subjects and for policy-making, the declaration said.

It also announced the setting up of national training institute so that the party’s leaders and workers can get comprehensive training on the policies, ideology, vision, policies of the government and current burning issues.

This national training institute can be started from ‘Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Development Studies’ in Kerala, the Udaipur declaration said.

The Congress also said an election management department should be constituted at the level of the All India Congress Committee so that poll preparation is done effectively and expected results are achieved.