Aiming to strengthen its base and maximise its public outreach ahead of the 2022 assembly elections in the state, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee will launch a 75-hour-long mega contact programme to celebrate 75 years of Independence.
The party recently organised ‘BJP Gaddi Chhodo’ foot-march campaign in all assembly constituencies of the state to expose the wrongdoings of the Yogi Adityanath government and protest the skyrocketing of prices of essential commodities and highlight farmers’ problems.
Giving details of ‘Jai Bharat Mahasampark Abhiyan’ in Lucknow on Thursday, UP Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu said that the party brass had decided that all senior leaders of should camp in 30,000 gram sabhas and make a direct contact with the public to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence.
“While the mass contact programme will be launched from August 19, the main function will be held on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on August 20. Party leaders will take the pledge to the people to save the “endangered” Indian Constitution in the current BJP regime. During the 75-hour programme, party leaders and office-bearers are expected to contact more than 90 lakh people,” he said.
Lallu said that the Congress would hold several other programmes in the coming days and would not sit idle till it gets the Yogi Adityanath government removed from Uttar Pradesh, after which the party would strive to replace the Narendra Modi government at the Centre.