Chandigarh October 20:
With Assembly elections round the corner, Punjab Congress on Wednesday announced to launch — ‘Punjab Bachao Yatra’ from Damdama Sahib from November 1. The month-long yatra will conclude at Budhladha on December 2 and will cover all the Assembly segments and will witness about 40 rallies during this period.
The modalities of the yatra were finalised at a meeting of the party’s campaign committee, chaired by party in-charge Thakur Gulchain Singh Charak. The meeting was attended by senior party leaders including Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni, the leader of the Opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, CWC member and MP Mohinder Singh Kaypee, MPs Partap Singh Bajwa, Vijay Inder Singla, KS Libra and others.
Addressing a meeting of senior party leaders and prominent workers, Charak said, “It was the beginning of the final and decisive battle that the party was waging in Punjab to throw the corrupt and incompetent Akali-BJP Government out of power”. He maintained that the Congress was perfectly placed to assume the power in the State as the rank and file of the party had suffered immensely during the last five years.
The party in-charge also asked the workers to remain united and maintain discipline at all costs. “It will be the Government of each and every party worker,” he said, while emphasising that the worker will be duly heard and each and every case of victimisation and intimidation will be looked into and firmly dealt with. Spelling out on the yatra programme, Capt Amarinder said there was a predominant mood for change prevailing all over Punjab and the yatra was aimed at galvanising that mood. He said, there was overwhelming enthusiasm among the party cadres about the party forming the Government in the State and the yatra and the rallies will set the tone for that change.
The PCC president asked the party cadres and workers to ensure maximum participation in the rallies as had been witnessed during his earlier programmes. “The yatra and rallies will set the tone for the change you have been dreaming for the last about five years and now the time has come to realise those dreams,” he said, to a thundering applause from the party workers and leaders present in the hall. Capt Amarinder said the yatra was also aimed at creating awareness about how corrupt the Akali-BJP Government has been.
Moreover, he added, people have not forgotten the atrocities committed on them and the reign of terror let lose by the Akalis. “Now is the time to avenge those atrocities, the humiliation and the intimidation,” he said, while urging them to remain united and overlook the small and petty differences. Charak and Capt Amarinder earlier held a joint meeting of the party’s media committee and the publicity committee. It was followed by the meeting of the party’s campaign committee and the manifesto committee.
With Assembly elections round the corner, Punjab Congress on Wednesday announced to launch — ‘Punjab Bachao Yatra’ from Damdama Sahib from November 1. The month-long yatra will conclude at Budhladha on December 2 and will cover all the Assembly segments and will witness about 40 rallies during this period.
The modalities of the yatra were finalised at a meeting of the party’s campaign committee, chaired by party in-charge Thakur Gulchain Singh Charak. The meeting was attended by senior party leaders including Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni, the leader of the Opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, CWC member and MP Mohinder Singh Kaypee, MPs Partap Singh Bajwa, Vijay Inder Singla, KS Libra and others.
Addressing a meeting of senior party leaders and prominent workers, Charak said, “It was the beginning of the final and decisive battle that the party was waging in Punjab to throw the corrupt and incompetent Akali-BJP Government out of power”. He maintained that the Congress was perfectly placed to assume the power in the State as the rank and file of the party had suffered immensely during the last five years.
The party in-charge also asked the workers to remain united and maintain discipline at all costs. “It will be the Government of each and every party worker,” he said, while emphasising that the worker will be duly heard and each and every case of victimisation and intimidation will be looked into and firmly dealt with. Spelling out on the yatra programme, Capt Amarinder said there was a predominant mood for change prevailing all over Punjab and the yatra was aimed at galvanising that mood. He said, there was overwhelming enthusiasm among the party cadres about the party forming the Government in the State and the yatra and the rallies will set the tone for that change.
The PCC president asked the party cadres and workers to ensure maximum participation in the rallies as had been witnessed during his earlier programmes. “The yatra and rallies will set the tone for the change you have been dreaming for the last about five years and now the time has come to realise those dreams,” he said, to a thundering applause from the party workers and leaders present in the hall. Capt Amarinder said the yatra was also aimed at creating awareness about how corrupt the Akali-BJP Government has been.
Moreover, he added, people have not forgotten the atrocities committed on them and the reign of terror let lose by the Akalis. “Now is the time to avenge those atrocities, the humiliation and the intimidation,” he said, while urging them to remain united and overlook the small and petty differences. Charak and Capt Amarinder earlier held a joint meeting of the party’s media committee and the publicity committee. It was followed by the meeting of the party’s campaign committee and the manifesto committee.
