* Steps on to ensure huge participation: Wani
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 21: Incharge ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra J&K Coordinator GA Mir, Co-Coordinators Raman Bhalla and GN Monga today organized review and preparatory meeting in presence of JKPCC chief Vikar Rasool Wani.
The meeting was attended by senior leaders- Manmohan Singh, Shabir Khan, Rajnish Sharma, Pranav Shagotra, Gurdarshan Singh, Satish Sharma, Amrit Bali, Sanjeev Sharma, Pankaj Dogra, Narinder Gupta, Pawan Raina, Shashi Sharma, Tariq Hussain, Rakesh Wazir, Dwarka Choudhary and others.
Briefing about the purpose of meeting, held at the residence of JKPCC working president Raman Bhalla, JKPCC chief said that J&K Congress is preparing for Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, with state party in-charge GA Mir and Co-incharge Raman Bhalla and GN Monga holding a meeting of all the committees formed for the yatra. The responsibilities of all the committees and the route of the yatra were decided in the meeting. In the meeting, it was decided to give responsibility to the leaders regarding the preparations for the yatra.
During the meeting, Wani took stock of the preparation for the Yatra. The party leaders were assigned their roles for the Yatra. “JKPCC has made elaborate arrangements under the leadership of Wani . More than one lakh people will be joining Bharat Jodo Yatra every day in J&K,” said Wani.
He said that elaborate arrangements were being made by the Congress party to make the Bharat Jodo Yatra of AICC leader Rahul Gandhi a grand success in J&K. He said Gandhi, through Bharat Jodo Yatra, has been raising a voice against the politics of division, rising unemployment, and problems being faced by the farmers and other weaker sections.
GA Mir addressing the meeting said that the problem is that Rahul Gandhi concentrated attack on the BJP about the proximity of party leaders to the owners of capital, their complete indifference to the many problems that beset the country such as unemployment, the hijacking of institutions, the suspension of civil liberties, and above all, the sheer ugliness of the political discourse has begun to pale through repetition.
“I say this even as I appreciate the need for a constant critique of the Government. But political practices cannot stop at critiques, they have to present to us an alternative vision of what India should be. The party has to state its stand, clarify where it speaks from, detail who it speaks for, and tell us why it speaks at all. There is a need to tell people not only where the Congress comes from, but what it has in store for a society that has been wracked by mutual suspicion, by vigilantism, by hatred, by violence, and by lack of effective governance,” he added.
Raman Bhalla said when Governments go wrong – as they tend to do periodically – every citizen should be able to state firmly that this is in violation of the constitution. Every citizen should be able to say that Governments should provide us with basics, such as food, education and health services, because this is our right. “We do not get food from the charity of leaders who personalise constitutional obligations. The Government is obliged to care for the well-being of its people. The Bharat Jodo Yatra has brought to the fore the real Rahul Gandhi and completely changed the Congress MP’s image,” Bhalla asserted.
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