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The Madhya Pradesh unit of the Congress party is launching ‘Kamal Nath Sandesh Yatra’ on June 15 with an aim to connect with the people belonging to the backward castes, and ending the first leg of the event with a show of strength rally at state Home Minister Narottam Mishra’s Assembly constituency.
The yatra will be flagged off by former CM Kamal Nath from the party’s state headquarters on June 15. The first leg of the yatra is expected to cover 10 districts in the Bundelkhand region, targeting around 23 lakh people.
Damodar Singh Yadav, Vice-president of MP Congress Committee and executive president of Madhya Pradesh Congress Backward Classes Department, who has been working on chalking out the yatra plan, said, “More than 50 public meetings will be held in 25 Assembly constituencies of 10 districts in the 12-day yatra… we will end the yatra at Datia, which is the constituency of Home Minister Narottam Mishra and our aim is to make him lose this election…”
The Congress party is expected to highlight the work done in its 15-month government, especially for the backward castes.
Party sources have said that the yatra will “raise the issue of the decision of 27 per cent reservation given to the backward classes by the then Kamal Nath government and the Shivraj government’s inability to implement the same.
The party will also “mount a renewed attack on the CM Chouhan’s flagship Ladli Behana Yojana scheme” while propagating Kamal Nath’s election promises like the Nari Samman Yojana (a monthly aid of Rs 1,500 to women), subsided LPG cylinders to each household, electricity at a cheap rate (Rs 100 for 100 units), and the promise to bring back the old pension scheme (OPS).
