State Congress announced the next phase of agitation programme against the farmers issue in the State in July with senior leaders assuring the workers that good result in the coming panchayat polls in the state would give them benefit in the 2017 assembly polls in the state. Addressing the district and city presidents of the Party here, AICC general secretary and in-charge of UP Madusudan Mistri made it clear that Party would allow the workers to contest the panchayat polls in the state and whoever gets good results would be rewarded in the next assembly polls. He said that Party needs to be organised at the village level and the coming panchayat elections would be good for the organisation to strengthen its base in the rural areas.
Mistri said that the Party would continue to fight for the farmers and would agitate at the village level against the proposed amendment in the land acquisition Act. Meanwhile, UP Congress president Nirmal Khatri announced that on July 13, Party would agitate at block and panchayat level to be led by the party presidents of the blocks and panchayats while on July 22, village level agitation would be held. Around 44 districts and city presidents participated in the meeting and the remaining district and city presidents would attend the meeting at Ghaziabad on May 28.
Meanwhile several activists of Youth Congress took out a march here on Tuesday protesting against the BJP-led Central government’s one year in office. The activists also burnt an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, media incharge, state Youth Congress, Avneesh Shukla said. President, UP Youth Congress Central Zone, Ankit Parihar, who led the activists said “this ‘suit-boot ki sarkar’ and its anti-people and anti-farmer policies will be exposed before the people very soon”. “The reality of it promise of ‘achchey din’ is already before the people and now its real face will also be exposed soon,” he added.