Cong leaders to spend 75 hrs in 75 dists as part of outreach prog

Ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, leaders and functionaries of the UP Congress will spend 75 hours in 30,000 villages spread across 75 districts of the state as part of an outreach programme. The programme, which is being held on the 75th year of India’s Independence, will begin on August 19 under the three-day ‘Jai Bharat Mahasampark Abhiyan’, Congress national secretary Dheeraj Gurjar said.

“Party leaders and functionaries will spend 75 hours in a village panchayat in each of the 75 districts of the state. They will stay in the village panchayat for a little over three days in the 30,000 identified villages of the state. Through this, the party aims to reach directly to 90 lakh people,” Gurjar, co-in-charge of UP at the All India Congress Committee (AICC), told PTI.

He said various programmes will be organised in the villages during the stay of Congress leaders and they will also do ‘’shramdaan’’ (voluntary community service) for one hour a day. On August 20, ‘Sadhbhavna Diwas’ will be celebrated on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Gurjar said, adding that freedom fighters, their families and senior citizens will be felicitated.

Anil Yadav, organisational secretary of the UP Congress, informed that party leaders and functionaries during their stay in the villages will have ‘snehbhoj’ (feast) with villagers, and in this, they will eat food coming from specific houses in the villages, and will not consume any outside food.