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SME Times News Bureau | 22 Mar, 2019
Congress President Rahul Gandhi is likely to give a big push to his
party's Lok Sabha campaign when he addresses his first-ever public rally
in this small census town of Malda district in West Bengal on Saturday.
He
is expected to up his ante against the "corruption and misgovernance"
of the Narendra Modi regime at the Centre and speak about the necessity
of a Congress-led government in the country, party sources said.
Gandhi,
who is coming to Bengal for the first time in 2019, will address what
the party expects to be a large gathering at Kolom Bagan ground. The
area comes under Malda North Lok Sabha constituency, a traditional
Congress bastion.
He is expected to reach the rally ground at around 3 p.m.
All
the senior Congress leaders, including the party's state president
Somen Mitra and former state chief Adhir Chowdhury are expected to be
present.
"In the run up to the Lok Sabha elections, the entire
focus of Congress and Gandhi has been on urging people to fight against
the incompetence, corruption and misgovernance of the Narendra Modi
regime.
"So the prime focus of the Congress president's address
tomorrow (Saturday) would be on the need and necessity of a Congress-led
alternative government at the Centre," state Congress vice president Om
Prakash Misra told IANS.
"As Malda is a long standing Congress
bastion, it would be natural for him to focus on the strength of
Congress ideology and the need to further bolster it in view of the
challenges to the idea of India and challenges to the constitutional
democracy of the country," he said.
The Congress has fielded
party MLA Isha Khan Chowdhury from the Malda North Lok Sabha seat,
against cousin and sitting MP Mausam Benazir Noor, who defected to the
Trinamool Congress in February.
Referring to Noor's decision to
desert the party, Misra said, "In the context to the place he (Gandhi)
is visiting tomorrow, we expect the party president to also talk about
principled politics which the Congress champions while the Trinamool
Congress is just doing the opposite."
Another state Congress
leader said Gandhi will also talk about the condition of healthcare,
joblessness, migration of students due to lack of opportunities and
labour problems under the Mamata Banerjee regime in West Bengal.
He said the last minute preparations for the rally are in full swing.
"The
activists and people across Malda are very excited as Rahul Gandhi is
coming to Chanchal for the first time. We are expecting a massive
turnout," he said.
"Initially the administration was not
cooperating with us in terms of giving permission for the rally ground
or usage of loud speakers. However, there is no hindrance since the
Election Commission gave its nod. All our state leaders are expected to
be present," he added.
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