New Delhi, May 17: The Congress on Tuesday accused the BJP of conspiring to “break” India by dividing people on religious lines and said the grand old party will undertake ‘yatras’ across the country to unite the people.
The party has given the “Bharat jodo” slogan to unite India and a 75-km yatra will be undertaken after August 9 during the 75th year of India’s Independence, senior spokesperson Ajay Maken told reporters here, after AICC general secretaries and in-charges held a meeting to give shape to the recommendations of the just-concluded three-day ‘Chintan Shivir’ at Udaipur in Rajasthan.
He said the ‘Bharat Jodo’ is not a unification of land masses of India but is about uniting the people of India.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also made a call to people to unite India and defeat BJP’s politics of hatred.
“People’s issues — earnings, inflation; BJP’s issues — riots, dictatorship. If the country has to progress, negative thinking of BJP and politics of hatred has to be defeated. Let’s together do ‘Bharat jodo’ (unite India),” Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala and Maken, were among the leaders who attended the meeting at AICC headquarters to evolve an action plan for the early implementation of the “Nav Sankalp” declaration made at the Shivir.
Venugopal said an informal meeting of the AICC general secretaries and in-charges was held to discuss the execution part of the historic Udaipur declaration.
“A follow-up meeting will be held tomorrow also. We are determined to bring new-age reformed politics to each of your doorsteps,” he tweeted.
The host of structural changes that were announced by the Congress at the three-day conclave will be implemented in the next few months.
AICC general secretaries and in-charges will meet again on Wednesday to chalk out the detailed plan for the implementation of the recommendations that include the “below 50” formula of granting party positions and tickets to youths, putting a cap of five years on one person holding a particular position, “one family, one ticket” and “one person, one post” formulas.
Sources, however, indicated that the party’s recommendation for fixing a retirement age for leaders may not be implemented as the organisation wants their experience to be put to use for grooming the young leaders in the party.
Maken said all such people holding multiple positions in the organisation and those on a position for over five years will be identified and new Congress mandals and setting up of new public insight and assessment departments will be formed soon, as recommended in the Udaipur declaration of the party.
Attacking the BJP, the senior Congress leader said, “The BJP leaders who are ruling the country are under a misconception, as they feel India is only a collection of geographical land masses but it is actually a union of people and when they try to divide them between the rich and the poor and between religions, then the threat of India breaking down is real,” he told reporters.
He said as the BJP divides the country, the Congress has come up with ‘Bharat Jodo’, renowned Gandhian Subbarao’s slogan of ‘Jodo- Jodo, Bharat Jodo’. (PTI)
