In a bid to woo the other backward classes (OBCs) ahead of 2019 lok Sabha polls, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will hold a rally in mid-June in the national capital.
This was announced by Ashok Tanwar, Haryana Congress chief alongwith MP Tamradhwaj Sahu, who is chairman, OBC Department of AICC on Wednesday here.
They said that the Congress chief has set the ball rolling to revive and strengthen the OBC Department of the party.
Sahu said that he met the representatives of backward classes of Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh on Wednesday and will be visiting all the states to collect the data regarding the functioning of the OBC cells in all the states and after that a “blue print” will be chalked out to strengthen these cells.
After completing the spade work, a national level rally will be held in Delhi in mid June to be addressed by Rahul Gandhi, he said.
In this rally, all the issues faced by the backward classes in different areas of the country will be discussed thoroughly so that they can be implemented in the right earnest, he added.
Sahu also addressed the office bearers and workers of OBC cell of Haryana Pradesh Congress AND asked them to work diligently to strengthen this cell by understating the problems, the difficulties and the weakness of this unit.
Addressing the meeting, Ashok Tanwar assured Tamradhwaj Sahu that all out efforts will be made to reach out to all the categories covered under the backward classes as recognized by the Haryana Government.
He said that the Pradesh Congress Committee will try to activate all the members of these communities so that Congress in Haryana is further strengthen. The PCC president also assured Sahu that the workers from Haryana will be attending the proposed rally of mid June in the maximum numbers.
The party is also trying to woo the dalit vote bank in Haryana.