Bharat Jodo Yatra achieving success in its objective of raising public issues: Bhalla

STATE TIMES NEWS

KATHUA: JKPCC Working President Raman Bhalla accompanied by Pranav Shagotra on Sunday convened Block level meetings at Hiranagar, Keerian Gandyal, Kathua Railway station Govindsar of District Kathua organised by District Kathua president Pankaj Dogra.
Prominent among those present on the occasion include Sohan Lal, Rakesh Kumar, Jagdish Dogra, Pankaj Sharma, Pawan Kumar, Anant Ram, Nirdosh Sharma, Rajnish Verma, Arun Metha, Ramesh Chander, Yog Raj, Gurdev Singh, Paramjeet Singh, Ravinder Pal Singh, Raman Thapa, Dr Satish Kumar, Parveen Sharma beside others.
Speaking on the occasion, Bhalla said that Rahul Gandhi through Bharat Jodo Yatra has opened the shop of love in the marketplace of hatred.” This line has been echoing throughout the Congress outreach programme, which commenced from Kanyakumari and ends at Srinagar on January 23. But the Congress is not planning to sit back after the Yatra comes officially to an end. On January 26, the party will start the ‘Haath Se Haath Jodo Abhiyan’, which will continue for the next two months. The party has reached out to like-minded leaders to join the Bharat Jodo Yatra. Some have already joined and some have agreed to join like Mehbooba Mufti and Farooq Abdullah. The party activists will distribute letters written by Rahul Gandhi and a charge sheet against the BJP government to every person, added Bhalla.
JKPCC Working President said Bharat Jodo Yatra has become a movement. Lakhs of people are participating in this yatra every day. Starting from Kanyakumari, till today, crores of people have participated.
Apart from Congress leaders, general people enthusiastically participated in the Yatra. their involvement is huge in this Yatra, which will resume form January 3.
Bhalla also said as this yatra emerged as a greatest movement in this country, a proper follow-up is needed, and that is why, the Congress Steering Committee decided for a ‘Haath Se Haath Jodo Abhiyan’ from January 26 onwards.
This, he said, will be a two-month massive campaign at the grassroots level. Two months of continuous padyatra will be there at the block level under the leadership of senior leaders, while state units will assign two leaders for each block to conduct the yatra. The yatra will be undertaken by the leadership of the Block Congress Committee, but two leaders deputed by the state unit will be there to lead the yatra, added Bhalla. Bhalla said that the critics now accept that the Yatra is successful. They too have been heard praising the kind of effort Rahul Gandhi is putting in the Yatra. Bhalla further said that “every Congressman and Congresswoman to work with unity, faith, determination, and a sense of collective purpose.”
The victory of the party, he said, “will be the victory of every leader and Karyakarta and a victory for the idea of India that guided our freedom movement and is enshrined in our Constitution”. “Crores of people struggle with soaring prices (increasing at nearly 7%) and record unemployment (8%), even as the Government allows the concentration of the nation’s wealth in a few chosen hands. Economic growth continues to slide with every passing year,” he said.
“The deliberate subversion of, and attack on Constitutional institutions continues. The premeditated attempt that is underway to de-legitimise the judiciary and orchestrate a confrontation between the executive and the judiciary is particularly alarming. The Government continues its silence on Chinese incursions on the border and the change in status quo on the LAC, even as credible reports indicate increased deployment of Chinese troops and weaponry,” Bhalla said. Pranav Shagotra and Pankaj Dogra claimed that Bharat Jodo Yatra has been successful in achieving its objective of raising people’s issues and going forward it will ensure that the government is held accountable. The opposition party also asserted that “untruths” spread about Rahul Gandhi to malign his image have been “demolished” by the Yatra and his ”reality” has come to the fore before the country. They said the Yatra has been successful beyond expectations. “When it started, there were a lot of questions about whether people would come or not or whether we will be able to cover 25 km every day. The last 60 days have passed in a jiffy now,” they said.”
Yatris have gone beyond physical pain. The yatra has achieved its first objective. Yatris have become comfortable with the yatra, the yatra has become comfortable with the country and the country has become comfortable with yatra,” they said.
Yatra has achieved its first objective and people know that it is being undertaken to highlight their issues, they said.It has to now move towards its second objective which is to make the government of the day accountable on issues of the people and country, they said.