Following the directives issued in an important meeting for poll bound states held in New Delhi the other day, under chairmanship of All India Congress Committee (AICC) Chief Rahul Gandhi, the Chhattisgarh unit of the Congress party has chalked out a plan to woo Other Backward Class (OBC), Dalits and Tribal voters.
The party in a bid to achieve success in cracking the caste equation, all the senior leaders of State unit of Congress party, elected members, Members of Parliament (MPs), Members of legislative Assembly (MlAs) and Chairman of concerned Morchas have been asked to conduct meetings at the Assembly segment level in the district headquarters for reaching out to the OBCs, Dalits and Tribals.
In the first phase, the meetings are to be held in the Surguja region and Raigarh. The meetings would start from Monday from Assembly segments of Koria district , Surajpur (July 17), Balrampur (July 18), Surguja (July 19), Jashpur ( July 20), and Raigarh on July 21.
Soon the meetings would be extended to other districts comprising the Assembly constituencies.
The prominent leaders who have been assigned the job include, Chairman of Tribal Wing, Amarjeet Bhagat, Dhanesh Patila from Scheduled Caste Cell and Mahendra Chandrakar, the Chairman of Congress party's State OBC cell. The AICC In-charge for the State affairs, P.l. Punia, Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee President, Bhupesh Baghel and leader of Opposition, T.S. Singhdeo will also actively participate in the meetings.