The Congress party workers should not be affected by the defeat suffered by the party in the last Vidhan Sabha elections and be prepared to fight the current conditions. The Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee president Pritam Singh said this while speaking at a meet of the Kumaon region’s office bearers and workers of the party here on Sunday.
Addressing the party members, the PCC chief said that the Congress workers should move among public and inform people about the policies of the party.
With united effort by party workers in the local body elections slated to be held soon, the candidates of the party will surely win, he said. Singh said that the party workers need to unite and face the current conditions.
Addressing the office bearers of the party, the PCC chief stressed that united effort for the polls will make it difficult for anyone to defeat the party. The leader of opposition in the Vidhan Sabha and Haldwani MlA, Indira Hridayesh exhorted the party workers to forget their differences and prepare together for the local body elections to be held in the near future. In order to take the party forward, its workers will have to work with a sense of sacrifice and dedication. They will also have to be prepared to undertake agitation in public interest, she said.
later, while talking to the media persons, the leader of opposition lambasted the State Government following the attempted suicide by transporter Prakash Pandey at the BJP State head office during a Janata Milan programme in Dehradun. She said that the wrong policies of the State Government have made people desperate enough to attempt suicide.
The Congress strongly objects to the treatment meted out to Pandey by the State Government, she stressed. Meanwhile, the PCC president said that the Congress is planning its strategy for the coming local bodies’ election and lok Sabha elections.
The Congress is planning its election strategy focusing on issues like price rise, unemployment, the effect of demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax.
The Congress will also hold a large agitation on these issues in the state in the near future, added Singh. The Congress national secretary Prakash Joshi, Rajya Sabha MP Pradeep Tamta, former Vidhan Sabha speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal, MlA Karan Singh Mahra, Mahila Congress State president Sarita Arya and other office bearers of the party were also among those present on the occasion.