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Odisha: Congress, left events to stage Jan Akrosh rallies from November

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By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Congress and different like-minded events on Sunday determined to organise ‘Jan Akrosh’ rallies throughout the state from the primary week of November towards the state authorities and the Centre forward of elections early subsequent yr.

The resolution was taken on the third spherical assembly of 16 non-BJD and non-BJP political events of the state headed by Congress. Issues on which to launch a marketing campaign towards the BJD and BJP had been mentioned on the assembly. Besides, a 17-member coordination committee headed by the president of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Sarat Pattanayak was constituted to supervise the marketing campaign until the elections are over.

Sources maintained that the difficulty of seat sharing didn’t crop up on the assembly. It was determined {that a} joint marketing campaign should be launched first. Seat sharing can wait until the elections are introduced. Besides, out of the 16 political events within the group, Congress could have seat-sharing talks with solely left events. Other political events within the group shouldn’t have any relevance on this regard.

The first Jan Akrosh rally will probably be held within the first week of November at Rayagada the place the Congress has a sound base adopted by the second at Rourkela in second week of November. The third and fourth rallies will probably be held at Sambalpur and Balasore within the first and second weeks of November, the OPCC president mentioned.

Pattanayak mentioned the marketing campaign will probably be launched over problems with a caste-based census, deteriorating legislation and order scenario, rising unemployment, neglect of SC and ST communities and large-scale corruption within the state. National leaders of the Congress and different political events are more likely to attend the rallies, he added.

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BHUBANESWAR: Congress and different like-minded events on Sunday determined to organise ‘Jan Akrosh’ rallies throughout the state from the primary week of November towards the state authorities and the Centre forward of elections early subsequent yr.

The resolution was taken on the third spherical assembly of 16 non-BJD and non-BJP political events of the state headed by Congress. Issues on which to launch a marketing campaign towards the BJD and BJP had been mentioned on the assembly. Besides, a 17-member coordination committee headed by the president of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) Sarat Pattanayak was constituted to supervise the marketing campaign until the elections are over.

Sources maintained that the difficulty of seat sharing didn’t crop up on the assembly. It was determined {that a} joint marketing campaign should be launched first. Seat sharing can wait until the elections are introduced. Besides, out of the 16 political events within the group, Congress could have seat-sharing talks with solely left events. Other political events within the group shouldn’t have any relevance on this regard.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The first Jan Akrosh rally will probably be held within the first week of November at Rayagada the place the Congress has a sound base adopted by the second at Rourkela in second week of November. The third and fourth rallies will probably be held at Sambalpur and Balasore within the first and second weeks of November, the OPCC president mentioned.

Pattanayak mentioned the marketing campaign will probably be launched over problems with a caste-based census, deteriorating legislation and order scenario, rising unemployment, neglect of SC and ST communities and large-scale corruption within the state. National leaders of the Congress and different political events are more likely to attend the rallies, he added. Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp