The Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee is busy preparing for the 24-hour-long satyagraha slated to be held outside the Prime Minister’s residence in Delhi on March 24. On Sunday, the PCC chief Kishore Upadhyaya chaired a meet with party leaders here to discuss plans for the protest to be held against the alleged apathy of the Central Government towards the State of Uttarakhand.
Earlier, Upadhyaya held meetings with Uttarakhand natives living in Delhi and with party cadre in Haridwar, Roorkee and Rishikesh among other towns exhorting the party leaders and workers to attend the demonstration in Delhi in maximum possible numbers.
At the meeting in Congress Bhawan here on Sunday, the PCC chief telephoned all the party’s MlAs, district Congress committees’ heads, party’s block and city heads, district Panchayat chairpersons and heads of urban local bodies exhorting them to ensure adequate participation in the protest. A large number of party workers from Dehradun, Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital are expected to reach Delhi for the demonstration on Tuesday.
Interacting with the PCC chief, Congress councillors in the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun and leaders of the district, block and city units of the party said that the party cadre is enthusiastically looking forward to participating in the protest outside the Prime Minister’s residence.
The party workers miffed at the apathy of the Central Government towards Uttarakhand will register their opposition in large numbers in Delhi, averred the Congress leaders here.
Cong holds free health camp
A free medical camp was organised at the Congress Bhawan in Dehradun on Sunday. The camp was inaugurated by PCC chief Kishore Upadhyaya. Speaking on the occasion, the PCC chief said that such medical camps would be organised once every month on a Sunday in the Congress State office.
Dr Aman, Dr Shadab, Dr Meenakshi and other doctors from Mahant Indiresh hospital were among those who rendered their services at the free medical camp. According to the PCC chief coordinator Jot Singh Bisht, about 7,00 people from various areas of Dehradun underwent a health check up in the camp.
Those in need were also provided five days’ medicines free of cost. PCC spokesman Mathura Datt Joshi said that the PCC chief had directed all of the party’s district heads to organise such camps at the district level.