Congress to hold CWC meet today
Marking the beginning of the celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, the Congress party is all set to hold its working committee meeting in Maharashtra’s Wardha on Tuesday. The party is set to give out a message against the ‘atmosphere of fear, hate and violence’ in the country, the Congress confirmed.
Party President Rahul Gandhi will be at the Sevagram Ashram in Wardha for the meeting and will lead a foot march on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation.
There will be a prayer meeting, a 'shanti' (peace) march, and a public meeting at the Sevagram Ashram in which Rahul Gandhi will give his message, a party leader said, adding that holding the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting in Wardha has a lot of symbolism attached to it.
The party leader further said, “the preliminary deliberations of Individual Satyagraha were held in Sevagram in 1940. The CWC met in Sevagram and adopted the resolution on Quit India movement on July 14, 1942."
According to sources, the Congress party may come up with ‘BJP gaddi chhoro’ (BJP relinquish power) slogan.
The CWC meet is expected to be attended by Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh among others.
The Congress has been accusing Narendra Modi government of practicing the politics of "hate and divisiveness".
Addressing a press conference at Sevagram near Wardha, Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said Rahul Gandhi will lead the 'padyatra' after garlanding the statue of Mahatma Gandhi near the Collector's Office in Wardha.
"The padyatra will culminate in a 'Sankalp Rally' at the Circus ground where he is expected to spell out the party's future strategy and pledge to uphold Gandhian principles and ideology," he added.
Surjewala further described Tuesday's CWC meet as ‘historic’ and said the Congress Working Committee had in 1942 met in Sevagram under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi to adopt the 'Quit India' resolution and a meeting was again held there in March 1948.
The situation prevailing in the country is of ‘loot, jhoot, batware and bhay’ and the nations needs freedom from such things.
Attacking the Narendra Modi-government, Surjewala said those in power are merely doing a "lip service" to the Gandhian thought "after murdering it".
"They swear by Mahatma Gandhi only for optics and photo-ops. Just by speaking about the Mahatma and releasing one's photos (modelled on) like Gandhi, doesn't make anybody a Gandhian," he said.
The Congress' chief spokesperson also claimed the party’s fight is against ‘falsehood, violence and fear.’
