Cong’s door-to-door campaign begins

Raipur, April 01, 2013

Congress started its pre-poll exercise to reach people by launching its three-month long statewide door-to-door campaign - ‘har ghar Congress, ghar-ghar Congress’ on Monday. The basic objective of the drive is to woo voters by informing them about Central schemes launched for them. Meanwhile, the party will also tell the people why ruling BJP does not deserve ‘third win’ by pointing towards its scams, irregularities, anti-people policies and failure to give good governance.

During the campaign, the party will 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.

Talking to media persons, PCC president Nandkumar Patel informed that the booth-level workers had started going to people in their respective assembly areas.

He said the Congress-led UPA government at Centre had launched host of public welfare schemes that need publicity in state. Through the campaign, the party will 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.

During the drive, the party will further tell the people about 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 CLP leader Ravindra Choubey said the party would strongly attack the ruling BJP through its door-to-door campaign and parivartan rally beginning on April 12.

He said anarchy prevailed in the state due to grafts and scams in government departments and people were irked of bad governance of the ruling party.

PCC meet held to make door-to-door drive successful

The state Congress chief Nandkumar Patel and CLP leader Ravindra Choubey on Monday convened meeting of PCC office-bearers to calk out strategy to make party’s door-to-door drive successful.

The duo asked the party general secretaries to organise meetings at district and block levels in their assigned Lok Sabha constituencies to ensure success of the drive. They said progress of the campaign should be reviewed on regular basis.

The duo further appointed party general secretary Subhash Sharma as coordinator of the drive. Sharma’s job will be to coordinate with all general secretaries.

The meeting was attended by party vice presidents - Kawasi Lakhma, Pushpa Devi Singh, TS Singhdeo, Pradeep Choubey, Baijnath Chandrakar, Dr Haridas Bhardwaj, treasurer – Ramgopal Agrawal, general secretaries – Subhash Sharma, Arun Vora, Bhupesh Baghel, Devvrat Singh, Ramesh Warlyani, Vidhan Mishra, Dr Shiv Kumar Daharia, Chandrabhan Barmate, Dr Premsai Singh, etc.

Cong appoints assembly-wise observers

Congress has appointed assembly-wise observers/secretaries for its door-to-door campaign and parivartan rally. The party has selected those assembly areas where it lost seats in previous polls.

The observers/secretaries are – Bharatpur-Sonhat – Vijay Kesharwani, Manendragarh – Ashish Singh Thakur, Chouleshwar Chandrakar, Baikunthpur – Basant Sharma, Premnagar – Ramesh Singh, Bhatgaon – Kumar Dev Singh, Ramanujganj – Dinesh Kujur, Samri – Prashant Singh Chiku, Jashpur – Shekhar Tripathi, Kunkuri – Jayesh Jain, Dharamjaigarh – Ramkrishna Aditya, Rampur – Usha Tiwari, Mungeli – Kanhaiyya Agrawal, Takhatpur – Rajesh Pandey, Bilha – Usha Patel, Bilaspur – Shahzadi Quraishi, Beltara – Nandan Chaturvedi, Masturi – Gayatri Kaivartya, Akaltara – Ravi Bhardwaj, Janjgir-Champa – Amarjeet Chawla, Mohanmani Jatwar, Chandrapur – Khushiram Malhotra, Pamgarh – Nagendra Negi, Balodabazar – Ramesh Yadu, Dharsiva – Chandrashekhar Yadav, Nagbhushan Rao, Raipur Rural – Kalpana Patel, Shreekumar Menon, Raipur West – Dr Shivnarayan Dwivedi, Raipur South – Amit Pandey, Satnam Panag, Abhanpur – Anjay Shukla, Bindranawagarh – Ramavtar Devangan, Sanjari-Balod – Mahesh Jaiswal, Daundilohara – Chandrashekhar Shukla, Samir Pandey, Gunderdehi – Bhagwanu Nayak, Kaushal Kishore Singh, Pataln – Tukaram Sahu, Durg Urban – Sheikh Nijamuddin, Ahiwara – Rauf Quraishi, Rehan Khan, Nawagarh – Deepak Dubey, Kawardha – Salil Kumar, Keshwar Harmukh, Khairagarh – Sharik Rais Khan, Dongargarh – Idrish Gandhi, Subrat Dey, Rajnandgaon – Siju Anthony, Dongargaon – Anil Kumar Gattani, Antagarh – Gopal Sahu, Bhanupratappur – Rajkumar Diwan, Kanker – Harshad Mehta, Keshkal – Shankar Thakur, Kondagaon – Yashovardhan Rao, Amin Memon, Narayanpur – Rajesh Tiwari, Bastar – Shakni Chandraiyya, Jagdalpur – Arun Bhadra, Chitrakot – Deepak Karma, Malkeet Singh, Dantewada – Awdhesh Gautam and Bijapur – Prabhat Jha.