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As part of Congress's ongoing nationwide ‘Jan Jagran Abhiyan’, former party president Rahul Gandhi and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will be participating in a ‘padyatra’ (march) at Amethi on December 18.
Congress MLC Deepak Singh said that the ‘padyatra’ will start from Jagdishpur and culminate in Jamo in Gauriganj and the Gandhi siblings are likely to join the Yatra from the start. Congress general secretary KC Venugopal said: "The party had launched a countrywide agitation programme 'Jan Jagran Abhiyan' on November 14, 2021, to expose the gross mismanagement of the economy by the Modi government and make the people aware of the government's insensitivity in addressing the prevalent back breaking inflation.”
The Congress said that people supporting the campaign have also been registering themselves for ongoing Congress membership drive through missed calls and other processes after it was launched on November 1, 2021. The party has also tried to ensure a discussion on the issue in the ongoing winter session of Parliament.
“After the callous and undemocratic denial of permission for holding a rally in Delhi, the Congress on Sunday organised a mega 'Mehangai Hatao Rally' in Jaipur (Rajasthan) where Rahul Gandhi compared the prices of essential commodities like gas cylinder, pulses, ghee, flour and sugar from 2014 and showed how they now have mostly doubled and tripled. Rahul even asked the crowd whether the promised ‘achhe din’ had come and added that the country was being run by "Hum do, humare do," Congress MLC Deepak Singh said.