The Congress party has decided to celebrate the 75th birth anniversary of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on a grand scale. A high level meeting of state Congress leaders was held in Dehradun on Friday to discuss the modalities of the organising the birth anniversary of former PM. The meeting was chaired by the in-charge of the state unit of the party, Anugrah Narayan Singh. The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) President Pritam Singh and other senior leaders of the party attended the meeting. As the decision of holding the meeting was taken on Thursday evening, many senior leaders and MLAs of the party failed to attend it.
A decision to celebrate the 75th birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi in all parts of the country was taken in a meeting of the office bearers of the Congress party at New Delhi on Thursday. It was decided that programmes in all district headquarters would be organised on August 19 and on August 20, a mega convention would be organised in the national capital.
In the meeting held on the day at Rajiv Bhawan, the headquarters of state Congress it was decided to hold a series of programmes from August 14 to 20. In the meeting the leaders of the party expressed their views on the week long programmes.
The vice president of the state unit of the party, Surya Kant Dhasmana said that it was decided that on August 14, seminars on contribution of Rajiv Gandhi in development of the nation would be organised at all block headquarters. Blood donation camps and fruit distribution programmes would be held in the hospitals on the day. He said that independence day celebrations would be held at all district headquarters on August 15. Dhasmana said that on August 16, district level programmes would be held. In these programmes, easy writing competitions on role of Rajiv Gandhi would be held in schools. Apart from them plantation drives and blood donation camps would be held in all districts. On August 19, a mega state level programme would be held in Haridwar where a nation unity march would be taken out. Thousand of party workers and all senior leaders of the party would take part in the march.