To garner maximum support and to make their protest call at New Delhi against new Bill on land Acquisition, a grand success, the local Congress leaders here took out two separate marches on Faizabad road as well as in Sarojinagar area on Thursday.
Hundreds of Congressmen, led by senior Congress leader, Ramesh Srivastava, who was also a contestant from lucknow East seat during last by-polls, and former home minister, Satyadeo Tripathi, started the march from lakshmanpuri at Faizabad road on Thursday evening. The procession passed through lekhraj Market, Kukrail Bridge, Badshahnagar Colony and ended at Nishatganj. The entire route was covered with posters and banners exposing that how prime minister Narendra Modi had made changed in land Acquisition Act, passed by last United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre.
Besides, all through the route, the Congress leaders aware the people about Narendra Modi’s move to appease the Corporate world by making changes in the land Acquisition law. They also raised slogan against the NDA government in the Centre. They called the public to make Congress rally against the above proposed Bill in New Delhi on coming April 19 a big success.
Similarly in Sarojninagar, the Congress delegation was led by District Congress president, Gaurav Chowdhary, who was also a contestant of the Party from the same Assembly constituency during last Assembly election. The prominent leaders who participated in the march included Amarnath Agarwal, Virendra Madan, Siddharth Priya Srivastava, Dwijendra Tripathi, Onkarnath Singh, Pramod Singh, Sanjeev Singh, Konark Dixit, Ganesh Shankar Pandey former MlA Shyam Kishore Shukla etc.