The Congress party on Thursday announced to launch a public outreach campaign, 'Sanvidhan Bachao Rashtriya Padayatra', starting from villages to townships across the nation. This decision was made following a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, where Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal announced the campaign's details.
He further revealed that the party had passed two key resolutions—one on Mahatma Gandhi and another as a political resolution. Venugopal also emphasised that 2025 will focus on the Congress' Organisational Reforming Programme, including a thorough evaluation of the capabilities of leaders at all levels within the party. "We moved two resolutions, one on Mahatma Gandhi and the second as a political resolution. More than 50 leaders participated in the discussions... We finally decided to go for a massive political campaign for one year. 2025 is going to be the Organisational Reforming Program of Congress. There will be a thorough inquiry about the capability of the leaders at every level," he added.
In a statement, the party also informed that they'll launch Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan Abhiyan, beginning with a rally in Belagavi on December 27 and culminating in a rally at Mhow on January 26, 2025, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Constitution. "The CWC met today in Belagavi, Karnataka to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s historic Presidency of the Indian National Congress at its 39th Session in 1924. As the nation has just celebrated the 75th anniversary of the adoption of our Constitution, it is also appropriate that we pay this tribute to him. Mahatma Gandhi’s statement of November 19, 1939, was pivotal to the establishment of the Constituent Assembly seven years later," the party's statement said.
Targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over Home Minister Amit Shah's recent remark on BR Ambedkar, the Congress said that the Union Minister's denigration of Ambedkar in Parliament is the latest instance of the RSS-BJP’s decades-long project to undermine the Constitution. They also reiterated their demand for Shah's resignation.
The party further condemned the amendment to the Conduct of Election Rules 1961 saying that the move undermines the principles of transparency and accountability that form the cornerstone of free and fair elections. "The CWC condemns the Centre’s amendment to the Conduct of Election Rules 1961 undertaken on the recommendation of the Election Commission of India which restricts public access to crucial sections of poll documents. This undermines the principles of transparency and accountability that form the cornerstone of free and fair elections. We have challenged these amendments in the Supreme Court. The way elections have been conducted in Haryana and Maharashtra especially have already eroded the integrity of the electoral process," the party added.
(With inputs from ANI)
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