Sunday, 06 November 2022 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The senior leaders of Uttarakhand Congress and the State in-charge of the party Devendra Yadav would start the Uttarakhand leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Mana village in Chamoli district on November 7. On Saturday the senior leaders of the party, the office bearers and the heads of the frontal organisations of the party held deliberations at Rajiv Bhawan in Dehradun about the Yatra.
Interacting with the party leaders, Yadav said that the former president of Congress party Rahul Gandhi has embarked upon a 3,507 kilometre long Bharat Jodo Yatra on September 8 from Kanyakumari. He said that in the States which are not in the route of the Yatra of Rahul Gandhi, district wise Yatras are planned by the party. In Uttarakhand the Yatra would start from Mana village of Chamoli district on November 7. The Yatra would be attended by senior leaders, office bearers, former Members of Parliament, MLAs, former MLAs, MLA candidates, office bearers of frontal organisations, district, Mahanagar and block Congress leaders and workers would participate in it.
The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Karan Mahara said that the Bharat Jodo Yatra fortnight would be held in the state during the birth anniversary programme of the former Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru. He said that apart from the issues raised by the former party president Rahul Gandhi, the State and local issues would also be taken up in the Yatra. Mahara said that awareness would be created about the recruitment scams in different departments, mining scams, liquor scams, atrocities against women, Ankita Bhandari murder case, Anti youth Agniveer scheme and others would be done during the Yatra.
Apart from Yadav and Mahara, national secretary of AICC Qazi Nizamuddin, former PCC president Ganesh Godiyal, deputy leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) Bhuwan Kapdi, MLAs Mamta Rakesh, Furkan Ahmed, Gopal Singh Rana, Virendra Jati, Anupma Rawat, former ministers Navprabhat, Hira Singh Bisht, vice presidents Surya Kant Dhasmana , Mathura Dutt Joshi, Manish Khanduri, Manoj Rawat and others took part in the deliberations.
