The Congress State co-incharge lal Singh has exhorted party workers to ensure their presence at the polling centres and boot-level instead of focusing mainly on campaign rallies.
He stated this after inaugurating an election office for Tehri lok Sabha constituency at the camp office of Rajpur Road MlA Rajkumar in the presence of ex-CM Vijay Bahuguna’s son Saurabh Bahuguna who has been made in-charge of the Rajpur Road assembly constituency.
Addressing the party workers after inaugurating the election office, Singh said there was no wave in favour of BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. “There is no threat to the party candidate in this constituency but we cannot be careless. We must ensure our presence at the booth level and not just focus on rallies. Compared to Modi, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is a breed apart and comes from a lineage of political leaders,” he said, while also exhorting the party workers to communicate with the voters and convince them to vote in favour of Congress candidates.
MlA Rajkumar asked the party workers to begin door to door campaign for Congress candidate from Tehri, Saket Bahuguna. He called upon the Congress councillors in the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun to bring 100 people each for the the procession to be taken out on April 17 when the Congress candidate from Tehri will file his nomination.
Saurabh Bahuguna, the Rajpur Road assembly constituency in-charge and the brother of the Congress candidate Saket Bahuguna exhorted the party workers to focus their efforts also at the booth level.
“I have been touring the constituency for two days now and met no one who recollected having seen the BJP MP Mala Rajyalakshmi Shah. My father has done a lot for Dehradun while he was the chief minister of Uttarakhand. Saket is about 40 years old now and if elected now, he will stay with the public for a long time,” he said while also calling for trust in the Bahuguna family. leader of opposition in the MCD, Neenu Sehgal and other local Congress leaders were also present on the occasion.