The monthly meeting of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee was presided over by the Uttarakhand PCC president Kishore Upadhyay at Jageshwar in Almora district on Monday. All the state office bearers of PCC, heads of the party’s departments, ancillary organisations and cells along with city, district chiefs, local MlAs and former MlAs attended the monthly meeting of the PCC.
Speaking at the meeting the PCC chief said that uniting under the leadership of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party has stood its ground against “facist, anti-democracy and anti-constitution powers” in Uttarakhand. He said, “At present the Congress party is passing through a phase of problem when all of us Congress members should not let our morale go low while uniting and strongly tackling this problem. In every Vidhan Sabha area, we have to make the village, booth and bazaar Congress committees active and raise a strong organisation,” stressed the PCC president. Upadhyay further said that as the chief opposition party in the State, the Congress has to strongly oppose every such decision of the state government, which is not in the interests of the state. He further exhorted the various office bearers of the Congress party in the state to start preparing for achieving victory in “mission 2019”.
Earlier, the PCC chief spoke about the Congress party’s history stating that it was a 130 years old part which had been active since the times of the nation’s freedom to the development of the nation in which it had played an important role. Upadhyay opined, “The Congress has always given the slogan of mutual harmony among followers of all religions to move forward taking all the sections of society along. All the Prime Mministers from Jawaharlal Nehru to Manmohan Singh have played an important role in the development of the nation. While Indira Gandhi had given the ‘Garibi Hatao’ slogan, Rajiv Gandhi brought the information revolution to India to establish a new identity of the nation in the international sphere,” opined the PCC chief.
Earlier, the PCC chief Kishore Upadhyay, PCC vice president Jot Singh Bisht and other office bearers of the party offered their worship at the Jyotirling in Jageshwar for the prosperity and good future of Uttarakhand and its people, stated the PCC statement released to the media on Monday evening.