Preparations for the first phase of Congress ‘Kalash Yatra’ being taken out to pay tributes to party leaders and other martyred at Jeeram valley near Darbha in Bastar have been completed.
The Yatra will be taken out from four places of the State which will cover all 90 Assembly constituency areas. The first phase of Kalash Yatra will begin from Rajim which has been the area of activities of former union minister Vidya Charan Shukla who was also martyred in Darbha massacre.
In the yatra beginning on July 4 at Rajim acting president of Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee Charandas Mahant, Congress legislature Party leader Ravindra Choubey, former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, CGPCC programme coordinator Bhupesh Baghel, former CGPCC president Dhanendra Sahu, former minister Satya Narayan Sharma, Vidhan Mishra and other senior leaders of the party will be present on this occasion.
Along with senior party leaders, kin of the leaders martyred at Darbha - daughter of VC Shukla Pratibha Pandey, son of Mahendra Karma Deepak , son of Udai Mudliyar Jitendra, relatives of late Yogendra Sharma, late Allanur Khan, late Abhishek Golchha and late Gopi Madhwani will also join the ‘Kalash Yatra’. However, kin of late Nandkumar Patel will not be present due engagement in some religious rites related to ‘monthly shraddha karma’ of Patel.
Meanwhile, CGPCC Programme coordinator Bhupesh Baghel and Rajim programme convener Amitesh Shukla urged relatives of martyred and injured leaders to participate in the Yatra which would cover 21 Assembly constituency areas during the first phase.