Preparatory meeting of Congress workers take place at PCC HQ Shaheedi Chowk, Jammu
Jammu, August 3: A preparatory meeting of Congress workers was held at PCC HQ Shaheedi Chowk, Jammu, organized by Mr. Yogesh Sawhney General Secretary Incharge Dist. President Jammu Urban. The meeting took stock of the preparations for Pad Yatra Starting from 9th August.
Shri Raman Bhalla Working President JKPCC who chaired the meeting said that The Congress party is undertaking padayatra starting from 9th August 2022, the entire leadership and cadre of the party will participate in it. Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, which will cover around 3,500 km and go through about 12 states and two Union Territories, to make aware the general public about the wrongdoings of the Modi Govt who is giving repeated and intensifying attacks on democracy, the country’s Constitution, the nation’s institutions and the social fabric of society.
Shri Bhalla said that the Indian National Congress pays rich tributes to all those who fought for India’s freedom, those who defeated the politics of divide and rule, those who came together to give the country, its great Constitution, and those who put India on the path of progress, prosperity, social justice, and harmony .“Today, as the politics of hate is being practiced by those who never took part in our country’s freedom movement, and whose ideologies resulted in the assassination of the Father of the Nation, the Bharat Jodo Yatra is being launched as a nationwide movement to unite, every Indian who is committed to the protection, preservation, and promotion of the values anchored in our country’s freedom movement, led by Mahatma Gandhi,” he added.
The rally will unite every Indian who is dedicated to fighting the politics of hatred, bigotry, and polarization and who believes that instead of divisive politics, the focus of governance should be on providing productive jobs to crores of young people, easing the burden on crores of our families of the intolerable price rise of essential commodities, ensuring the welfare and well-being of kisans and khet mazdoors, and protecting our Jal, Jangal and Zameen for securing livelihoods and dignity for crores of people belonging to weaker sections of society.”. He asked that party functionary take part in the Yatra, voluntarily in the larger interest of the nation.
Earlier Mr. Yogesh Sawhney assign the duties of DCC, BCC, and Ward Congress functionaries for under-taking Bharat Jodo Yatra within the Municipal areas of Jammu City and its outskirts and appealed to the party functionaries as well as the general public to cooperate with parties to make the programme a success.
The meeting was attended by Raman Bhalla, Yogesh Sawhney, Manmohan Singh, Rajveer Singh, Krishan Lal Gupta, Gurdarshan Singh, Sanjeev Panda, Thomas Khokhar, Block President Amrit Bali, Jatinder Singh, Mandeep Singh, Chander Shaker Sharma, Uttam Singh, Vijay Corporator Dewarka Choudhary, Rittu Choudhary, Pritam Singh, Arti Gupta, Latish Sharma, Satpal Sapolia, Pawan Dev Singh, Sandeep Dogra, Happy Randhawa, Ajay Lankhotra, Gopal Sharma, Kewal Krishan Yogi, Diwan Chand, Ashok Khajuria, Chaman Lal, Sahil Shavotra, Sham Khasav, Jatin Vashisht, Panch Gagan Bral, Paras Ram Baloria, Dimpa Singh, Ashwani Sethi, Parveen Basotra Pinka, Hoshiar Singh, Mangat Ram and others.
