Congress to launch 2-month campaign to spread Rahul’s message across India

Kathua (J&K), Jan 20: The Congress will launch a two-month door-to-door campaign across India from next week to spread Rahul Gandhi’s message among the masses, senior leader Jairam Ramesh said on Friday.
The Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra is a fight between the BJP-RSS combine’s ideology and the Congress, which has always believed in unity and brotherhood, Ramesh said and mentioned that his party had prepared a “charge sheet” against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government.
“The Congress has prepared a charge sheet against the Modi government that will be released in Delhi on Saturday. We will go with copies of the charge sheet along with the message of Rahul Gandhi to every household in the country,” the Ramesh, the Congress general secretary said at the end of the Bharat Jodo Yatra’s first day here.
Ramesh, who was flanked by senior colleagues, including former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh and Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee chief Vikar Rasool Wani, said the ‘Haath Se Haath’ campaign would run from January 26 to March 26.
Under the campaign, Congress workers will be mobilised in all 2.5 lakh panchayats, six lakh villages and 10 lakh polling booths to spread the message of Gandhi, who launched the Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir yatra to remove hatred and spread the message of love, Ramesh said.
The march, which started from Kanyakumari on September 7, is in its final phase. It is scheduled to culminate in Srinagar with Gandhi hoisting the national flag at the party headquarters on January 30.
Calling economic inequality, social polarisation and political dictatorship the three major worrisome issues for the country, Ramesh said, “While others subscribe to the view that unity is diversity, we believe it is diversity which leads to unity. When we are suppressing the diversity, which BJP and RSS is doing right now, it means our unity is in danger.” Responding to a question about National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah advocating for dialogue with Pakistan, Singh said he had every right to express his opinion.
“In all diplomatic relations and all issues, dialogue is an option and when to use it or not depends on the situation of that time,” he said.
Ramesh added that former BJP leader Sushma Swaraj had said talks and terrorism did not go together but “I want to ask this government that China is sitting on our land but we had a record trade with the country over the past two years”.
“China is occupying our land after making incursions and creating tensions on the borders in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh but the trade with it is going on without any restrictions. Who does not want to talk to Pakistan but the only condition was that cross-border terrorism should be stopped and that has been the policy of every government,” he said.
Responding to a question on the exodus of migrant Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in 1990, Singh reminded that it was not the Congress that was in power at the Centre at that time. (PTI)