‘ Will launch 2nd freedom struggle against BJP govt’
The Congress will soon launch a “second freedom movement” against the “misrule and misdeeds” of BJP government at the Centre.
At the historic Congress Working Committee ( CWC) that was held at the Gandhi Ashram at Sevagram about 80 kms from Nagpur, the party vowed to counter the Narendra Modi government’s “hate and violence” ahead of the 2019 general elections. It was coincidence that the Mahatma Gandhi’s Sevagram Ashram in Wardha, where once the century- old party had given a “Quit India Movement” call against the British Raj in 1942, hosted its third CWC ( second in 1948), gave clarion call to oust the BJP which was “spreading hatred in the country”, saying the same reason had led to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
The Congress Working Committee was attended prominently by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, leaders of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Gulam Nabi Azad and in Lok Sabha, Malikarjun Kharge, former defence minister A. K.
Anthony, former finance minister P. Chidambaram and others. Former chief ministers Ashok Chavan ( Maharashtra), Siddharamaaiah
( Karnataka) and chief minister of Pondichery, V. Narayanswamy were also present.