Cong to oppose govt’s nagar suraj abhiyan

Party to remind BJP of its 2008 poll promises

Raipur, November 16, 2012

Congress has decided to oppose government’s nagar suraj abhiyan slated to be commended from November 19. The decision was taken during PCC office-bearers’ meeting convened by state unit president Nandkumar Patel at Congress Bhawan on Monday.

The party plans to mount pressure on the government for provision of radical facilities. For this, Patel asked the party leaders to mobilise workers at ward-level.

“The party will oppose the government’s ambitious campaign in all 3084 wards of the state,” said Congress spokesperson Mahendra Chhabda.

Besides, the party will remind the government of its promises made 2008 assembly elections.

“The government had made several promises to the people in its polls mandate, however fulfilled none. We will pressurise it to fulfil all its promises,” Chhabda said.

In the meeting, the mayors of Raipur, Bilaspur, Bhilai and Rajnandgaon municipal corporations complained that the government was obstructing development in their areas, not informing about the schemes and deliberately stalling release of funds allotted to their municipals as they belong to principal opposition party.

Considering this, Patel said he would convene another meeting of DCC presidents, party mayors, opposition leaders and public representatives of civic bodies at Congress Bhawan on November 18 to give final shape to Congress movement against the government during nagar suraj abhiyan.

“The party will discuss over issues like property tax, aggregate tax and inordinate hike in power tariff during the meeting. Apart from host of other issues, the Congress will gherao the ruling party on these matters during nagar suraj campaign,” Chhabda said.

Prior to November 18 meeting, Patel asked the Lok Sabha incharge general secretaries to hold meeting of DCC presidents, block heads and corporators pertaining to party movement on Saturday (November 17).

On Monday meeting, CLP leader Ravindra Choubey said to make the Congress movement effective the workers should rope in large number of people.

Former CLP leader Mahendra Karma also felt that public support to the party movement would create strong pressure on the government.

On the occasion were present Satyanarayan Sharma, Ramgopal Agrawal, Baijnath Chandrakar, Pradeep Choubey, Dr Haridas Bhardwaj, Subhash Sharma, Ramesh Warlyani, Bhupesh Baghel, Arun Vora, Dr Shiv Kumar Daharia, Vidhan Mishra, Dr Premsai Singh, Chandrabhan Barmate, Shailesh Nitin Trivedi, Kiranmayi Nayak, Vani Rao, Naresh Dakalia, Nirmala Yadav, etc.