Driving Naari Programme launched in Chandigarh
* Bajwa welcomes Amarinder’s initiative
Chandigarh,Welcoming the belated initiative taken by the Deputy Parliamentary Party Leader Capt. Amarinder Singh to confront the Bharatiya Janata Party chief Mr Amit Shah at Amritsar on January 22 by organising a counter anti-drug rally, the state party chief Mr Partap Singh Bajwa asserted that the programme would be under the umbrella of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee and the modalities would be chalked out in consultation with the party high command after the Muktsar rally at Maghi on January 14.
“I am happy that the entire party is getting united to confront Mr Amit Shah. The PPCC has already announced the January 22programme. We have to take on Mr Shah not only on drugs but also several other issues. It is the PPCC programme that has been endorsed by Capt Amarinder Singh and I welcome it”, he added. The party would re-iterate the demand for a CBI inquiry into the drug smuggling in the state.
Mr Bajwa said Mr Shah would also be questioned on forced conversions under the ‘Ghar Vaapsi’ programme of the Sangh Parivar, the sword hanging on the Punjabi farmers of Gujarat who were facing the threat of being uprooted and the Gujarat government was still to withdraw its special leave petition from the Supreme Court on this issue and non-implementation of the one rank one pension decision which had been taken by the UPA government at the initiative of the Congress vice-president, Mr Rahul Gandhi.
He said a party meeting was being convened to take the final call on this issue in consultation MPs, CLP , MLAs with the party chief Mrs Sonia Gandhi and Mr Rahul Gandhi to finalize the modalities of the program.
He pointed out that ever since the arrest of drug lord Jagdish Bhola, the Congress in the state had been in the protest mode on the drugs issue beginning with chakka jam programme on January 16, 2014 which was followed by chain hunger strike from January 19 to 28 in Chandigarh. The latest in the series of protests were the dharnas organised at the district headquarters on January 5.
