Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Congress’ State unit on Thursday launched a ‘Jana Sampark Yatra’ to get connected with people in all the blocks.
A team of Congress leaders and workers, including PCC president Niranjan Patnaik, started the journey from here by a mini bus to Baleswar, where they would meet people in different blocks in the district during their three-day stay.
Targeting 36,000 polling booths across the State, the leaders would cover the entire 314 blocks.
Meanwhile, the PCC has asked its workers and leaders to enrol at least 10,000 membership each in the party to claim ticket for contesting elections.
The move came two days after ruling BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik launched a ‘Jana Sampark Padayatra’ from Jharana Basti on outskirts of Bhubaneswar to sensitise public about various welfare programmes of the State Government across Odisha for a month.
During the padayatra, the BJD party workers would also highlight the failures of the Narendra Modi-led BJP Government at the Centre.