Terming the Congress as a party of the poor and the common man, Anil Shashtri, permanent invitee to the All India Congress Working Committee and son of former Prime Minister lal Bahadur Shashtri, said the grand old party knows how to run the Government claiming that the development witnessed in the country was due to its endeavours.
Expressing his hope about the success of the Parivartan Yatra, Shashtri said that it’s the message of the public that in 2013 rule of the BJP Government will come to an end. Whatever development is witnessed in was the result of 3 years initial Congress rule in the state. Sunken into corruption and having lost its sensitivity, Bharatiya Janata Party Government’s style of functioning was anti people, he charged.
Addressing the gathering at Bakawand, 18 km from divisional headquarters Jagdalpur, Shashtri charged that in the state fund provided by the Centre is being misused. People want that fund coming from the Centre reaches them as also the flag of Congress flutter in the ensuing Assembly poll.
Addressing the meeting president of Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee Nand Kumar Patel claimed that throughout State wave of change is blowing. He said that Congress always talked and worked for improving the condition of tribals in the society.
Patel also promised to provide sixth pay commission package to Shikshakarmis and fulfil other demands if the party comes to power besides helping women who ran small shops. He also said that party’s stand on paddy procurement has already been announced in its manifesto. Mahendra Karma addressing the large gathering of tribals in local dialect ‘Gondi’ said that state government was ignoring safety and security of Tribal people.
Congress District Committee president Manohar lunia said that people of the State are now tired of the BJP Government and its corruption and want Congress rule in Chhattisgarh again. He also told the people that all the welfare schemes run in the state have been funded by the Central G overnment.
Congress leaders Vidya Charan Shukla, Union Minister Charandas Mahant, Malkit Singh, Rekhchand Jain and others also addressed the meeting. later the leaders also held discussion in the Town Hall at Jagdalpur.