Raipur, August 20, 2012
Congress paid tribute to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on the occasion of his birth anniversary on Monday. The party and its frontal organisations remembered Gandhi by organising programmes in different parts of the city.
State Congress president Nandkumar Patel and other Congmen garlanded his statute at Rajiv Gandhi chowk.
At Congress Bhawan, Patel said Gandhi dreamt of making the country prosperous and powerful.
“Gandhi wanted to make India a developed nation. It was his initiatives that the youth are able to cast vote in elections at age of 18. He was pioneer of information technology (IT) revolution in the country. He had strongly advocated equal rights for women in local bodies,” Patel said.
Senior Congress legislator Ajit Jogi paid tribute to Gandhi by terming him father of information and broadcasting revolution in the country. He said Gandhi was mature politician and never hesitated in admitting that only 15 out of 100 paise reach to the last citizen.
The party’s Jhuggi Jhopdi cell leader Sewak Mahanand and other members of the cell also homage to Gandhi by calling him builder of young India.
The party leaders who attended tribute programme at Congress Bhawan were PCC general secretary Ramesh Warlyani, MLA Amitesh Shukla, PCC spokesperson Mahendra Chhabda, DCC Raipur Rural president Pankaj Sharma, Paras Chopra, Murlidhar Netam, Anjay Shukla, Kalpana, Chhaya Verma, Vikas Upadhyay, Niranjan Haritwal, Madanlal Taleda, Sanjay Pathak, Shiv Singh Thakur, Ramawtar Dewangan, Suresh Mishra, Ghanshyam Tiwari, Kanhaiyyalal Agrawal, Suresh Thakur, Shreekumar Menon, Aijaz Dhebar, Radheshyam Vibhar, Samir Pandey, Bhagwanu Nayak, Daulat Rohra, Rajesh Thakur, Arun Bhadra, Hardeep Singh Benipal, Sunita Sharma, etc.
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