The Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee has decided to organise various programmes across three days this month to celebrate the 125th anniversary year of independent India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. According to the PCC spokesman RP Ratudi various programmes are slated to be held on November 13, 14 and 15 in the State.
He informed that on November 13 in Nainital district, Uttarakhand Mahila Congress president and MlA Sarita Arya along with PCC general secretary Ram Singh Kaida will lead party workers in distributing fruits at the Bhawali sanitorium where Kamala Nehru had also stayed for some time.
The party workers will also take out a rally through the Bhawali bazaar to mark the 125th anniversary year of Nehru. later, on November 14, a programme will be organised at the PCC office in Dehradun in the presence of the PCC president Kishore Upadhyay and CMr Harish Rawat.
After this meet in the Congress Bhawan, the PCC chief Kishore Upadhyay and CM will lead party workers on a walk to the old jail premises where Nehru had been confined for some time.
Ratudi further claimed that thousands of party workers from Uttarakhand will be attending the programme to be organised by the All India Congress Committee on November 14 at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi.
He also said that the PCC president has designated senior party leader Vijay Saraswat and lal Chand Sharma to facilitate the coordination for this event. Saraswat and Sharma will establish coordination with the AICC office bearers in New Delhi to ensure facilitation of all necessary facilities for Congress workers from Uttarakhand attending the event in New Delhi.
On November 15, the PCC will organise a programme at Srinagar in Pauri district to commemorate Nehru’s 125th anniversary year, added Ratudi.