Saturday, 04 September 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The Uttarakhand Congress kick-started its campaign for the assembly elections of 2022 by starting its Jan Parivartan Yatra from Khatima in Udham Singh Nagar district on Friday. The Congress leaders started the Yatra by offering floral tributes to the martyrs of the statehood movement at Martyrs memorial. Addressing a public meeting at Ramlila Ground, the in charge of Uttarakhand Congress Devendra Yadav said that people of the state are suffering from unemployment and rising prices but the double engine government is doing nothing to reduce their sufferings. The general secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) and former chief minister Harish Rawat said that the BJP government is hell bent to destroy the farmers. He claimed that the Congress government would fill all the vacant posts in different government departments of the state when it comes to power.
The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Ganesh Godiyal said that the people of the state have made up their mind to change the government in Uttarakhand. He predicted that BJP would be wiped off in the elections. The leader of opposition Pritam Singh said that the people of the state have understood the character of the BJP and they will throw it out of power in the state.
The working presidents of state Congress Bhuwan Kapdi, Tilak Raj Behed, Jeet Ram, Ranjit Rawat, state co incharge Dipika Pandey, Rajesh Dharmani, Rajya Sabha MP Pradip Tamta, Govind Singh Kunjwal, Prakash Joshi, Mahendra Singh Pal and others were present on the occasion.
