Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) president Raj Babbar claimed that the Party is ready to throw out all the three political opponents who had pushed the state towards under-development, backwardness, poverty, lawlessness etc during the last 27-years of non-Congress rule.
``This is land of Malik Mohamed Jais from where former prime minister Jawahar lal Nehru had pledged to throw out the Britishers to `free’ India. Now from the same land, we again took pledge to free this state from the misrule of SP, BSP, BJP and put it again on the path of development and progress and particularly to end the fight between the communities and religions”, asserted Babbar while address a huge gathering that turn out in Jais at Amethi to listen to him during second day of the Party’s bus yatra ``27 Saal-UP behal’ campaign on Monday.
The Yatra was flagged off by AICC general secretary and State incharge Gulam Nabi Azad here on Sunday. Babbar accompanied by senior Congress leader and MP Pramod Tewari appealed to support Congress so that the dreams of every citizen particularly youth and women of getting job, security etc could be fulfilled.
Meanwhile chairman of the UPCC Media Cell Satyadeo Tripathi claimed that bus yatra of the Party received an encouraging response as it helped spread the message that people should not be divided on basis of caste or religion. “We have successfully put across the message to the people to unite them and not divide them on caste and religion, as parties like Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and BJP have done during their rule in the state in the last 27 years,” Tripathi said. He said during the 1980s when Congress ruled the state, votes were not sought on communal lines, as done now.
According to him, the bus yatra “27 saal UP behaal”, undertaken under the leader shit of UPCC chief Raj Babbar and chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit, successfully highlighted the failures of the successive governments in the state and sought to reach out to the masses during the first two days of the second leg of their campaign against non-Congress governments misrule. “We are very pleased looking at the enthusiasm of people in the state. Our experience of first two days is many times more than our expectations,” he said, adding that people came out on the roads is large number to extend their support to the Party.