Cong issues list of speakers for May 1 dharna

Hariprasada, Patel, Choubey to participate dharna at Rajnandgaon

Vidya Charan Shukla at Mahasamund, Jogi at Bilaspur

Raipur, April 27, 2012

Congress on Friday issued list of speakers for its May 1 dharna programme to be staged in 80 Assembly areas of the state. Besides, the party has also issued list of leaders who will stage court arrest on May 1.

According to information, the AICC general secretary and state Congress incharge BK Hariprasada, PCC president Nandkumar Patel and CLP leader Ravindra Choubey will participate in the dharna at Chief Minister Raman Singh’s Assembly constituency Rajnandgaon while senior party leader Vidya Charan Shukla will address the partymen at Mahasamund. Similarly, MLA Ajit Jogi will lead the party dharna at Bilaspur.

In addition, former PCC president Dhanendra Sahu will participate dharna at Gariyaband, Satyanarayan Sharma at Durg, deputy CLP leader Rampukar Singh at Jashpur, Parasram Bhardwaj at Balodabazar, Kawasi Lakhma at Sukma, Mahendra Karma at Sukma, Arvind Netam at Kondagaon and Pawan Diwan at Dhamtari.

The places where the party will stage court arrest and the leaders who will participate in it are – Sukma – Kawasi Lakhma, Nina Ravatia, Lalu Rathore, Bijapur – Jhitruram Baghel, Antu Ram Kashyap, Mannu Ram Kutchh, Dantewada – Mahendra Karma, Awdhesh Singh Gautam, Vikram Sharma, Bastar – Manku Ram Sodhi, Ganga Potai, Kailash Poyam, Kondagaon – Arvind Netam, Madhav Singh Dhruv, Mithilesh Swarnkar, Narayanpur – Shiv Netam, Manak Darpatti, Vijay Thakur, Dhamtari – Pawan Diwan, Swaroopchand Jain, Ashok Bani, Ajay Tripathi, Kanker – Somprakash Giri, Ashok Som, Digvijay Singh Kridutt, Janjgir-Champa – Kamla Manhar, Ramadhar Kashyap, Manshi Ram Upveja, Korba – Dinesh Sharma, Sanjay Singh, Mohanmani Jatwar, Raigarh – Pushpa Devi Singh, Jhadu Ram Gabhel, Yuvraj Singh Diwan, Jashpur – Rampukar Singh, Gajendra Jain, Anil Agrawal, Koria – Rajendra Bondiya, Basant Sharma, Atal Shrivastava, Durg – Satyanarayan Sharma, Sheikh, Nijamuddin, Girish Dubey, Bemetara – Ganesh Shankar Bajpayee, Ramlal Bhardwaj, Surendra Sharma, Balod – Rajendra Tiwari, Jhumuk Lal Bhediya, Imran Memon, Kawardha – Pradeep Choubey, Balram Bais, Dashrath Lal Mishra, Rajnandgaon - BK Hariprasada, Nandkumar Patel and Ravindra Choubey, Bilaspur – Ajit Jogi, Dr Renu Jogi, Iqbal Ahmed Rizvi, Mungeli – Baijnath Chandrakar, Shailendra Dubey, Arjun Tiwari, Surajpur – Ramchandra Singhdeo, Khelsai Singh, Bhanupratap Singh, Balrampur – Chakradhari Singh, Alok Dubey, Ajay Bansal, Sarguja – KK Gupta, Jethu Ram Manhar, Balodabazar – Parasram Bhardwaj, Arun Mishra, Parvez Ahmed, Gariyaband – Dhanendra Sahu, Girish Dewangan, Jeet Singh and Mahasamund – Vidya Charan Shukla, Pramod Choubey and Narendra Tiwari.