Congress to sound poll bugle on PM Narendra Modi’s turf
TNN | Updated: Mar 12, 2019, 05:21 IST
All top leaders will first take part in a prayer meeting at the Sabarmati Ashram, after which the CWC meeting ... Read MoreGANDHINAGAR: Buoyed by its best Gujarat assembly election performance in three decades, and given the fact that it can only improve on its 2014 Lok Sabha performance in the state, the Congress is taking the fight to the home turf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by kicking off its nationwide general election campaign from Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
The entire top brass of the Congress party will be in the city for the CWC meeting, after which Congress president Rahul Gandhi, along with United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi, and AICC general secretary and in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi, are expected to address a ‘Jan Sankalp Rally’.
AICC in-charge for Gujarat, Rajeev Satav, said, “In 2017, Gujarat Congress set the tone for the BJP’s fall in the country with an impressive performance. Again, in this general election, Gujarat will take the lead in dislodging the present Union government. That is why the party leadership has chosen Gujarat to launch the national election campaign.”
“Mahatma Gandhi embarked on the historic Dandi March on March 12, 1930 to free the country from British misrule. On March 12, 2019, the Congress will kick off a new freedom struggle. A struggle to free the country from BJP misrule,” he said.
State Congress chief, Amit Chavda, while listing down the party events scheduled for Tuesday, said that this will perhaps be the first time when the entire top leadership of the party, along with all chief ministers of the Congress-ruled states, all state party presidents and all other key office-bearers will be present on the same stage. “All top leaders will first take part in a prayer meeting at the Sabarmati Ashram, after which the CWC meeting will take place at Sardar Patel Memorial. We have arranged to place 1.25 lakh chairs at the rally venue, but expect over 1.50 lakh workers to attend,” Chavda said.
The CWC meeting and the public rally, earlier scheduled to be held in Ahmedabad on February 28, were postponed by the Congress after an escalation of hostilities between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control.
The entire top brass of the Congress party will be in the city for the CWC meeting, after which Congress president Rahul Gandhi, along with United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi, and AICC general secretary and in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi, are expected to address a ‘Jan Sankalp Rally’.
AICC in-charge for Gujarat, Rajeev Satav, said, “In 2017, Gujarat Congress set the tone for the BJP’s fall in the country with an impressive performance. Again, in this general election, Gujarat will take the lead in dislodging the present Union government. That is why the party leadership has chosen Gujarat to launch the national election campaign.”
“Mahatma Gandhi embarked on the historic Dandi March on March 12, 1930 to free the country from British misrule. On March 12, 2019, the Congress will kick off a new freedom struggle. A struggle to free the country from BJP misrule,” he said.
State Congress chief, Amit Chavda, while listing down the party events scheduled for Tuesday, said that this will perhaps be the first time when the entire top leadership of the party, along with all chief ministers of the Congress-ruled states, all state party presidents and all other key office-bearers will be present on the same stage. “All top leaders will first take part in a prayer meeting at the Sabarmati Ashram, after which the CWC meeting will take place at Sardar Patel Memorial. We have arranged to place 1.25 lakh chairs at the rally venue, but expect over 1.50 lakh workers to attend,” Chavda said.
The CWC meeting and the public rally, earlier scheduled to be held in Ahmedabad on February 28, were postponed by the Congress after an escalation of hostilities between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control.
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