While the BJP has fielded its MPs, MLAs, public representatives and party workers in the State to spread awareness on Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR), the Congress has also planned to launch Statewide campaign against CAA, NRC and NPR. The party will organise events across the State on days of national importance to “protect” the Constitution of India.
JPCC Spokesperson Alok Dubey said that the economic crisis has brought the country's GDP to the brink of recession. “Unemployment levels are highest in the last century, agrarian crisis, suicides of growing farmers, closure of large scale industrial units with increasing prices of all essential commodities and food items including petroleum products, cooking gas, layoffs in industrial units made the lives of people more miserable,” he said.
“Instead of providing relief to the people on these issues, the BJP has worked on a dangerous course of intensifying communal polarisation and attacking the democratic rights and Constitutional guarantees of millions. CAA, NRC and NPR is a package, which is against the Constitutional, specifically targeting the poor, Dalits, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and linguistic and religious minorities. In this regard, through a resolution passed in a meeting held under the chairmanship of the Congress President of the like-minded Opposition parties, it has been decided to protect the Indian Constitution peacefully under various programmes on days of national importance,” he said.
Dubey further said that on the directions of AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal and JPCC president Rameshwar Oraon district Congress offices and JPCC headquarters will organise programmes on three important days January 23 and 30. The programmes will be organised on January 23 (Birth Anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose), January 26 (Republic Day) and January 30 (Death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi).
The Congress leader said, “It is our ultimate duty to protect the values enshrined in the Constitution. During the programmes we will take oath to read the Constitution and protect it. The programmes should shed light on the fundamental principles laid down in our Constitution and how the present policies of the BJP are threatened.”
“Mahatma Gandhi made a conscious choice to explore non-violent options to advance India's struggle for independence. As his ideology of the killer is taking hold in our politics, it is very important to highlight and fight Gandhiji's values. On January 30, Gandhiji's messages will be highlighted by organising unity conference and prayer ceremony to advance Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence and communal harmony at the State Congress Headquarters, District Headquarters,” he said.
JPCC executive president Keshav Mahto Kamlesh, Spkesperson Lal Kishore Nath Shahdeo, Rajesh Gupta and Tausif were also present on the occasion.