Haath se Haath: Congress to launch countrywide two-month campaign

The Congress will launch a twomonth doortodoor campaign across India from next week to spread Rahul Gandhis message among the masses senior leader Jairam Ramesh said on FridayThe Gandhiled Bharat Jodo Yatra is a fight between the BJPRSS combines 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 Modiled central governmentAlso read Shiv Senarsquos Sanjay Raut joinrsquos Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir amidst criticism from rival factionThe 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 Ramesh the Congress general secretary said at the end of the Bharat Jodo Yatras first day hereRamesh 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 26Under the campaign Congress workers will be mobilised in all 25 lakh panchayats six lakh villages and 10 lakh polling booths to spread the message of Gandhi who launched the KanyakumaritoKashmir yatra to remove hatred and spread the message of love Ramesh saidThe 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 30Calling 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 dangerResponding to a question about National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah advocating for dialogue with Pakistan Singh said he had every right to express his opinionIn 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 saidRamesh 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 yearsChina 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 crossborder terrorism should be stopped and that has been the policy of every government he saidResponding 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 timeAs far as we are concerned the Congress always supported that all Hindus and Muslims should live together and that is the basis of our Bharat Jodo Yatra he saidRavinder Sharma chief spokesperson of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee added The Congress provided employment and financial packages for the rehabilitation of the community but they the BJP government at the Centre failed to secure their lives They Kashmiri Pandits along with Dogra employees were forced to return amid targeted killings and have been on a protest for the past over six months in JammuOn the demand for restoration of Article 370 especially from the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration headed by Abdullah Ramesh said the Congress believes that the bill introduced in Parliament on August 5 2019 was not tabled in a democratic manner and was passed without consultation or debateWe want restoration of democratic activities and restoration of statehood There is also Article 371 of the Constitution prevalent in different parts of the country where people enjoy special status under this provision he saidHe also alleged that the Ghulam Nabi Azadled Democratic Azad Party 100 per cent had the BJPs backingHis party has already vanished and those leaders who have joined it returned to the Congress and we accepted them back considering that they were on two months leave ModiShah Home Minister Amit Shah strategy has failed in Jammu and Kashmir he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever