The Congress will organise massive awareness rally against BJP government in Gandhi Maidan at 12 pm on Sunday. The PCC president Nandkumar Patel says that over one lakh people are expected to participate in the rally. Patel also convened a meeting of the senior party leaders to discuss about the final preparation of the rally at Congress Bhawan on Saturday.
Besides Patel, the rally will be addressed by the PCC general secretary incharge BK Hariprasada, AICC treasurer Motilal Vora, PCC secretary incharge V Hanumantha Rao, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh, Rajya Sabha member Mohsina Kidwai, Korba Parliamentarian Dr Charandas Mahant, The president of Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee Kantilal Bhuria and AICC secretary Bhaktcharan Das, leader of Congress Legislators’ Party (CLP) Ravindra Choubey, Vidya Charan Shukla, Arvind Netam, former PCC president Dhanendra Sahu and Satyanarayan Sharma.
“In the rally, we will prominently raise issues like corruption, rising naxalism, increasing crime rate, PMT paper leak episodes (twice in one month) and government deception to the farmers on distribution of Rs 270 bonus,” Patel said.
“We will further raise issues like misuse of Central funds by the BJP government owing to which the poor people, especially living in the remote areas and tribal regions are not getting benefited by the schemes launched for them. In addition, we will highlight corruption and irregularities prevailed in Centrally-sponsored schemes being implemented in the state from Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MNREGA) to literacy campaign, Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and so on,” he said.
The other issues on which Congress will target the BJP are – power purchase, forcible land acquisition from farmers in Janjgir-Champa and other areas at minimal rate for industrialists, sale of river water, sale of dams, allocation of mines to the ineligible companies, repressive action against poor people on pretext of encroachment, sale of illegal liquor, etc.
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