ONLY CONGRESS Party has the potential to put UP on the road to fresh development. To achieve this end the party will appeal to the people to hand over power in the State to it.
This will be the message of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to the people of the State when she kicks off the election campaign in Kanpur on August 8, said AICC general secretary and incharge UP Ashok Gehlot at a Press conference today.
The leader was talking to mediapersons after taking stock of the preparations made by partymen for the Kanpur rally which has been christened as Nav Nirman rally by the party.
Having stayed out of power in the State for the past 16 years the party has overcome all its shortcomings. Congress workers have now started contacting people and were apprising them with the achievements of the Central government.
The Kanpur rally will mark the beginning of the end of Mulayam Singh’s rule in the State.
Lashing out at the Samajwadi Party government he accused this party of doing nothing for the youth. All it did was to lure the youth with five hundred rupees as unemployment allowance.
{{/usCountry}}Lashing out at the Samajwadi Party government he accused this party of doing nothing for the youth. All it did was to lure the youth with five hundred rupees as unemployment allowance.
{{/usCountry}}He said, this sop given to the youth would ultimately become the cause of the fall of the Mulayam government in the State.
He accused the State government of deliberately not implementing the employment guarantee scheme in the State because it was mooted by the Central government.
In view of the elections the state has been divided into eight sectors. He said Congressmen were making contacts with the people at the block and district level and were also holding meetings. The response of people, he said was good.
This was a good sign, he added. Later, he left for Pratapgarh to attend another function.
A Pratapgarh report adds: Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Congress Legislature Party leader Pramod Tiwari paid glowing tributes to freedom fighter Pandit Muniswar Dutt Upadhayay on his birth anniversary here on Thursday.
Upadhyay was also a member of Parliament and had founded 36 colleges.
Addressing the function as chief guest, Gehlot appealed to the youth to follow the ideals of Upadhyay.
Tiwari said if Upadhyay had not opened the colleges, people of district would have been unable to pursue higher education here. He said Upadhyay had brought Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru to Pratapgarh during the freedom struggle and had launched the Kisan Andolan.
Former MP Raj Kumari Ratna Singh, former MLA Lal Pratap Singh and DCC president Mohammad Ishaq also addressed the function presided over by UPCC member Shyam Kishor Shukla.
Another function was organised on the campus of the Brijendra Mani Inter College (Kohandaur) where Khadi Gramodyog Minister Raja Ram Pandey was the chief guest.
Talking to newspersons, Gehlot said the party would go it alone during the assembly elections in UP.