Cong parivartan yatra to restart from Keshloor on June 16

Rahul Gandhi to attend yatra’s concluding rally in Jagdalpur
 

Holds talks with Mahant, Choubey

Raipur, June 10, 2013

The state Congress will restart its ambition parivartan yatra from Keshloor on June 16. In this connection, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi convened a significant meeting of acting PCC president Charandas Mahant and CLP leader Ravindra Choubey at AICC headquarters New Delhi on Monday and took a decision that the party should go ahead with its incomplete yatra from the same spot where it had left due to May 25-naxal attack on its leaders. 

The meeting was also attended by Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi’s political advisor Ahmed Patel, AICC media chairman Janardan Dwivedi and Chhattisgarh Congress incharge BK Hariprasada. 

Gandhi himself will attend concluding public rally of the yatra in Jagdalpur. Before May 25 incident, the party was scheduled to conclude its yatra in Raipur. 

Gandhi said the party’s state leadership should ensure yatra convoy gets adequate security in Bastar region.

In the meeting, Gandhi also reviewed decisions taken by late PCC president Nandkumar Patel and Choubey.

He asked Mahant and Choubey to complete yatra in June 2013 and then chalk out plan to constitute booth-level committees in every assembly constituency.

Expressing his concern over Bastar’s conditions, he has decided to discuss about it with party’s district heads of the region on June 14. To convey decisions taken in Delhi meeting, Mahant will conduct meeting of PCC office-bearers at Congress Bhawan on June 12 and 13.