Gujarat Congress plans 13-day Adivasi 'Jan Jagran' rally

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Ahmedabad, Apr 21 (UNI) The Congress today announced its plans to start a 13-day Adivasi 'Jan Jagran' rally in central and south Gujarat from April 28.

Addressing mediapersons here today, senior Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition Arjun Modhwadia said the 'Jan Jagran' adivasi rally had been organised to highlight the fact that not a single rupee of the package, announced recently by the BJP-led government for adivasis, was allocated in the current state budget.

This should the bankruptcy of the scheme and an attempt to fool the people, he alleged.

Speaking on the occasion, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Samiti spokesperson Shaktisinh Gohil said the rally would begin from Umargaon and culminate near Vadodara. It would cover 44 talukas and nine districts.

He said Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi had been invited to address the Vadodara rally.

Mr Gohil said the party had also planned to organise a 'yatra' (march) from May 12 to bring to the fore the problems faced by the farmers.

Giving details of the yatra, he said it would commence from Ambaji and pass through Banaskantha, Patan, Sabarkantha and Gandhinagar regions before its end at Mehsana.

Mr Modhwadia charged that the state government was selling electricity, supplied by the Central government, to other states, while the farmers were being starved of electricity.

Despite earning a profit of Rs 75 crore through the sale, he alleged the government was fighting shy of helping the farmers.

''We would be giving a voice to the farmers to express themselves through the rally,'' he said.

Union Textiles Minister Shankersinh Vaghela, who was also present at the media briefing, remarked that the money spent on refurbishing Chief Minister Narendra Modi's image by publishing his photos, could have been utilised to generate extra electricity for the farmers.

The yatra would highlight the failure of schemes like Sujalam Sufalam and also the failure of the BJP government in providing electricity and water for irrigation, which it had promised in its manifesto, Mr Vaghela said.

Taking a dig at the suspended Dahod MP Babubhai Katara, who was recently caught in New Delhi on the charge of human trafficking, AICC secretary Manish Tiwari said the country had seen the true nature of BJP.

UNI

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