Cong reaches state’s 30% blocks under door-to-door drive

Raipur, April 24, 2013

Congress has reached state’s 30% blocks under its three-month long statewide door-to-door campaign - ‘har ghar Congress, ghar-ghar Congress’. The drive was launched on April 1 and will conclude on June 30. In 90 days, the party aims to reach all 190 blocks of state. The primary objective of the drive is to increase vote bank for the party by publicising Central schemes and creating negative image of the state government by pointing towards its scams, irregularities, anti-people policies and failure to give good governance.

Under the campaign, the party is distribute two types of pamphlets to people – one, comprising list of Central schemes and second, containing list of grafts and scams exposed during BJP’s regime. 

Through the drive, the party is prominently publicise Central schemes like MNREGA, PMGSY, Mid-day Meal Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Indira Awas Yojna, Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY), Rural Drinking Water Supply, Integrated Child Development Programme, Sanjeevni 108, grants for backward areas, etc. 

On the other hand, the partymen are telling people that the ruling BJP does not deserve to  remain in power pointing towards eye camp incidents, smart card scam, mining scam, BALCO land acquisition scam, land sale-purchase scam, Bhatgaon coal block allocation, women abuse cases, power tariff hike, etc.

The Congress spokesperson Sushil Anand Shukla informed that workers were toiling hard to make the drive successful. The drive is steered by office-bearers of DCCs, BCCs, wards and booths. Shukla claimed that people were warmly responding the drive for its nature being interactive. 

On Thursday, the drive’s state coordinator Subhash Sharma reviewed its past 23-day progress at Congress Bhawan. He asked co-coordinators to take report from Vidhan Sabha observers pertaining to drive’s progress. The meeting was attended by co-coordinators Kanhaiyya Agrawal, Manish Dayal, Manish Dayal, Dilip Singh Chouhan, Bakar Abbas, Vikas Tiwari and Ashok Shivhare.