State Congress Working President Charandas Mahant has said that the attack on the party’s convoy of ‘Parivartan Yatra’ was carried out due to fear of Bastar’s (Assembly) seats getting ‘snatched’, a Congress party Statement issued here on Tuesday said.
‘Whoever has stopped the course of ‘Parivartan Yatra would be punished,’ he said while addressing
district and block level presidents of the party at the State Congress headquarters here on Tuesday.
He said that the way late Nand Kumar Patel was working , a change was certain in Chhattisgarh. ‘It is the prime responsibility of the Congress workers to realise the dream of late Nand Kumar Patel and other martyred leaders’.
The determination with which the ‘Parivartan Yatra’ was taken out, we have to fulfil the late leader's dreams. One may belong to any faction or be with any leader but all are stakeholders in the party’s programmes, Mahant said.
During the meeting, the State Working President of the party apprised the district and block-level workers on the directives issued by the party High Command.
Speaking on the occasion, leader of Opposition Ravindra Choubey said that the work done by the district and block-level workers was unparalled while they worked under the leadership of late Nand Kumar Patel.
‘It is our collective responsibility to maintain such an environment.’
He said that the May 25 massacre happened due to security not provided by the State Government.
Congress State General Secretary Subhash Sharma said that a strategy needs to be prepared for districts and Assembly segments where the Parivaran Yatra had not reached.