Over 150 Cong workers leave for Bastar in different groups

Raipur, April 28, 2011

Over 150 Congress workers from different districts left for Bastar on Thursday after their state president Nand Kumar Patel and leader of the Congress Legislators’ Party (CLP) Ravindra Choubey urged them to join the poll campaign at the earliest.

The Congress media cell incharge Mahendra Chhabra informed that Patel had asked all the 187 PCC delegates, presidents of all the 199 blocks and presidents of 23 District Congress Committees to reach Jagdalpur along with the workers before May 1, 2011 and take poll assignment from party’s general secretaries Ramesh Varlyani and Rajendra Tiwari.

Chhabra said the party would keep an eye on every polling booth of the Bastar Lok Sabha constituency to prevent BJP to misuse the government machinery. “Therefore, Patel has appealed to the workers to go to Bastar in large number and ensure that the polling in each area is done transparently,” he said.

He informed that the workers proceeded towards Bastar from different districts including Durg, Rajnandgaon, Mahasamund, Bilaspur, etc on Thursday. The DCC president Inderchand Dhariwal and other workers from Raipur would leave for Bastar on Friday.

Already, the senior party leaders including Vidya Charan Shukla, former PCC president Dhanendra Sahu, legislators Amitesh Shukla, Kuldeep Juneja, Dr Shiv Kumar Daharia, former PCC working president Satyanarayan Sharma, Bhupesh Baghel, etc have started campaigning in Bastar according to responsibilities allocated to them.

The party workers, who looked enthusiastic after the leadership change in the state unit, said that they would let no stone unturned in making Congress victorious in Bastar.

They said the Sanjari-Balod Assembly by-election was an eye-opener not only for the state unit but also for the national leadership. “This eventually led the party supremo to instruct the new PCC president Nandkumar Patel and the new incharge general secretary of state Congress BK Hariprasada to abridge the gap between the factions and bring them under one umbrella to fight the Bastar by-poll,” they said.