After “Ghar Ghar Modi”, the Congress has launched a “Ghar Ghar Congress” campaign to cover each and every house in all the 117 Assembly constituencies of the State ahead the high-octane Punjab polls, the next year.
Under the campaign, launched by the state party chief Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday, the party workers and leaders would go house-to-house and highlight the programme of the Congress party amongst the voters.
For the same, the state has been divide into 13 lok Sabha constituencies. The specially-designed buses, having Capt Amarinder’s huge cut-out along with party’s flag and symbol, would reach every doorstep in these 13 segments carrying the party’s messages among the people.
Each bus, carrying three leaders each, would reach out to at least 20 lakh people in 40 days across the state.
The vehicles will be flagged off on September 24 by the PPCC president from the Congress Bhawan and the campaign will start from September 26.
The campaign was launched during a meeting of party’s district presidents, zonal coordinators, MlAs, senior leaders with an eye on state assembly polls.
Besides, the party has decided to launch an intensive campaign — Congress liyao, Punjab bachao — to reach out to the people from September 26 to November 1.
The campaign will cover all 117 constituencies, and during this period, the party will hold 1,404 meetings…54 meetings will be held every day across the state.
Capt Amarinder, while speaking to the mediapersons, criticised the SAD-BJP government for not letting the discussion on No-Confidence Motion in Punjab Vidhan Sabha.
Terming SAD MlA Virsa Singh Valtoha as “terrorist and liar”, he demanded action against him for using derogatory remarks against Congress MlA Tarlochan Singh Soond.
Commenting on Congress MlAs’ night camping, Capt Amarinder said that they had no other option as they were not given time to speak in the assembly.
He also alleged that Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Charanjit Atwal of biased attitude saying that he worked under the pressure of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.