Cong to take up door-to-door contact drive from today
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana unit of the Congress will start a door-todoor contact drive from Tuesday to mark the birthday of party’s national president Rahul Gandhi.
The drive will continue till the forthcoming parliamentary elections due next year, state party president Ashok Tanwar said while addressing newspersons here on Monday.
Tanwar, who was accompanied by former bureaucrat Pradeep Kasni and JNU student leader Pradeep Narwal who had recently joined Congress, said he would also undertake the third phase of his cycle yatra – ‘Haryana Bachao, Privartan Lao’ – from Tuesday from Garhi Kiloi in Rohtak district . He will reach Kalanaur via Baniyani, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s native village, (also in district Rohtak) on June 22.
Tanwar said the party workers would undertake a “house-tohouse” contact drive ahead of the parliamentary and assembly polls to apprise people of the “failures” of the ruling BJP.
To a question on the recent meeting of party’s full-time workers held by BJP national president Amit Shah in Faridabad, Tanwar alleged it could probably be their plan to burn Haryana once again. “After ‘chintan’ and ‘manthan’ meetings in the past, it was probably on the subject of ‘dahan’ (arson) by them,” he quipped and added that the Congress, however, would not let it happen this time. Kasni, who claimed that he had joined the Congress without any conditions, said he was also a victim of the BJP government. He alleged that a bureaucrat in the chief minister’s office had tried to disrupt his work by instigating a strike in his department. He also said that he joined the party “fight forces which were working against the Constitutional institutions”.