On the first anniversary of Maoist attack on the Congress party convoy at Jeeram valley of Sukma district in Bastar on May 25 last year, tributes were paid to the martyred leaders at Congress Bhawan here on Sunday.
Various programmes were held at all district headquarters to pay tributes to the leaders, workers and security personnel killed in the attack.
A year ago, former Union Minister Vidyacharan Shukla, State Congress president Nandkumar Patel, former leader of Opposition and founder of Salwa Judum movement Mahendra Karma, Congress State general secretary Uday Mudaliyar, Nandkumar Patel’s son Dinesh Patel, Yogendra Sharma besides other Congress workers and security personnel were killed in the Jeeram valley attack by Maoists.
On Sunday, on the first anniversary of the incident, Congress workers remembered the martyred leaders and paid tributes to them at all district and block headquarters.
In the programme organised at Congress Bhawan in Raipur, former Minister and sitting MlA Satyanarayan Sharma, former Minister Mohd Akbar, Congress Raipur City District president Vikas Upadhyaya, State General Secretary Iqbal Ahmad Rizvi, Ashok Raj Ahuja, ex-MlA Kuldeep Juneja, Haji Nizamuddin, women Congress office-bearers and workers participated.
Floral tributes were paid to all the leaders killed in the attack. The Congress MP, Tamradwaj Sahu, said that the incident happened because of security lapse and carelessness of the Government.
He said that Naxal issue of the State would prominently be raised in the Parliament.A programme was also held at Nandeli, the home village of former State president, the late Nandkumar Patel.
In the programme organised at Nandgaon, tributes were paid to the late Uday Mudaliyar and other party leaders. State Congress vice-president Pradip Choubey and MlA Arun Vora were present in the programme.