Various Congress leaders including the Pradesh Congress Committee president Pritam Singh and former Chief Minister Harish Rawat paid tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 26th death anniversary on Sunday. The party organised programmes in different parts of the state to mark the occasion.
Presiding over the programme held at the Congress Bhawan, the PCC president Pritam Singh credited the former Prime Minister for taking India to the forefront of the information technology revolution. He was also instrumental in bringing about the constitutional amendment to make Panchayati Raj institutions more powerful. The PCC president also referred to the former prime minister’s efforts in various other spheres. Addressing the party cadre on the occasion, Singh exhorted them to pursue the path shown by Rajiv Gandhi for strengthening the Congress party. Former chief minister Harish Rawat, previous PCC president Kishore Upadhyay, former cabinet minister Dinesh Agrawal, PCC vice president Jot Singh Bisht and other party leaders expressed their views on the occasion. The PCC chief spokesman Mathura Datt Joshi informed that earlier in the day the PCC president and other party leaders garlanded the statue of the former prime minister at the Rajiv Gandhi complex at Dispensary Road. In Haldwani, the leader of opposition in the Vidhan Sabha and local MlA Indira Hridayesh presided over a programme organised by the party to mark the occasion.