Cong to intensify anti-govt movement after Diwali

Raipur, November 09, 2012

Congress will intensify its anti-government movement after Diwali. The party will organise a slew of events under its tehsil-level dharna programmes and assembly-level workers training camps (i.e. manthan) in November and December.

Earlier, the state unit was scheduled to kick start its dharna programmes at tehsil-level against government from November 1 but it could not do because of party rally at New Delhi.

The party will attack the government on the issues like corruption, lawlessness, increasing naxal violence, inordinate power bills, black marketing of fertilisers, with Rs 270 paddy bonus, uterus-removal case, etc.

Besides, Rajyotsav, global investors’ summit and shifting of Mantralaya to Naya Raipur will be other major issues on which the principal opposition will grill the government.

The party sticks to its demand that the government should disclose its total expenditure on Rajyotsav-2012. The Congmen allege that the BJP government had transformed the state festival into private event to deceive people and take political mileage. They said the party would raise the issue in every forum.

They also term the global investors’ summit a big failure indicating that majority of the invitees had already established their industrial unit in Chhattisgarh. They said the Congress will seek information from the government pertaining to progress of its previous agreements with the industrialists pointing that majority could not come out of papers even in past 4-5 years.

On shifting of Mantralaya, the party feels it was unwise decision. “Why was the government in haste to shift Mantralaya when it was aware that the works would be deeply affected by its imprudent decision,” asked Congress general secretary Ramesh Warlyani.

“With all the directorates functioning at Raipur and Mantralaya at Naya Raipur, the works which were usually being done in a day or two would now be done in a week or at least ten days. This will case gross inconvenience to the people,” he added.

“The party is in no mood to spare the government and would surely raise this issue in its upcoming events,” he said.