Raising anti-national slogans will invite sedition charges: CM

AGRA : Amid the anti-CAA row, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said everyone has the right to protest and express his opinion but no one has the liberty to indulge in anti-national activities. “In democracy, all have the right to speak, but this does not allow anyone to damage public property. Those raising anti-national slogans will invite sedition charges and would be put behind bars.”

LUCKNOW: The Congress on Thursday decided to set up units of its ‘social media’ department at grassroots level in all the villages in the state. A decision in this regard was taken at the four-day training camp for district and city unit chiefs that concluded in Rae Bareli on Thursday.

It will also launch a major agitation programme on issues concerning farmers in Uttar Pradesh. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had attended a brain storming session at the training camp on Wednesday. Before winding up their tour on Thursday, both Sonia and Priyanka met the partymen and later went to Bharetha village in Amethi, once considered to be a family bastion, to pay condolence to families of six persons, who had died in a road accident recently. Under the agitation programme, party workers will ‘gherao’ public representatives and officers in various districts. A farmers’ march will also be organized across the state at the end of the programme.

The Congress workers would also get “Kisan Mang Patras” filled by the farmers to get feedback about their problems and demands across the state.

A senior party leader said the training sessions were held on Congress ideology, its historical, cultural and spiritual dimensions, booth management and strengthening the frontal organisations and cells.

IT WILL ALSO LAUNCH A MAJOR AGITATION PROGRAMME ON ISSUES CONCERNING FARMERS