To give a new boost to the Party in the biggest state of the country, Congress Party used the opportunity of birthday of their president Sonia Gandhi, by kicking off series of `Padyatras’ from Meerut on Wednesday.
In lucknow also, general secretary of UPCC and former State Minority Cell chairman, Maroof Khan led a procession in form of a `Rath’ which passed through all the important markets of the city distributing sweets to celebrate the occasion.
“All the Congressmen should come out and exposed the anti-farmer, anti-poor, anti-people policies of both Central as well as State government’, called All India General Secretary, Madhusudan Mistri, while giving green signal to the 5-kilometre long Padyatra from Saheed Smarak in Meeruton Wednesday morning. Mistri, who is also incharge of the Party affair here in Uttar Pradesh, said that Sonia Gandhi had always works for welfare of the poor and down-trodden section of the society besides the farmers of this country so raising the people’s voice on her birthday could be the best form of celebration and praying for long life of Party president.
Praising Sonia for her “immense service” and “stellar contributions” to all aspects of public life, State president, Nirmal Khatri claimed that they decided to celebrate their leader’s birthday by raising the problems faced at present by the public. ``There is lawlessness everywhere, people are not feeling safe, farmers were committing suicides as they were not even getting their dues pending with the government, rising prices of even essential commodities had posed a serious threat for common man to have two time meal etc”, pointed Khatri adding that they decided to celebrate Sonia’s birthday by carrying out series of Padyatras exposing both Central and State governments for cheating the public by making false promises during polls.
Addressing a gathering at the end of first Padyatra at Hapur Road Bus Stand in Meerut, Khatri said that the Congressmen had took oath on occasion of Sonia’s birthday that they would not sit ideal and would kept on raising problems faced by the public till both the State and Central government were thrown out of power. Khatri claimed that people start thinking of good governance days provided during Congress’s regime, particularly in Uttar Pradesh so now the Party will see a comeback in this biggest state of the Country as the people will throw out all other Parties who had pushed the state on backwardness.
Meanwhile in lucknow, Congress leaders gathered at Party’s state head-quarter and cut cake to celebrate Sonia Gandhi’s birthday. later former minister, Ram Krishna Dwivedi flagged off rath from the State head-quarter which distributed sweets on all the main intersections of the city.