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Gujarat Congress launches campaign with virtual ‘Jan Aakrosh’

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Congress on Friday launched its campaign for byelections in eight assembly seats by organizing a virtual ‘Jan Aakrosh’ rally to highlight issues of school fees, farmer’s plight and other issues. With the ECI issuing stringent guidelines to prevent the spread of Covid-19 pandemic and large gatherings being banned, the Congress kicked off its election campaign through virtual platforms. The ‘Jan Aakrosh’ rally was addressed by leaders from the state party headquarters in Ahmedabad, while people viewed the speeches at 200 different locations across the state. AICC Gujarat in-charge, Rajeev Satav, GPCC president Amit Chavda, working president Hardik Patel, leader of opposition Paresh Dhanani and other leaders targeted the government over the issue of schools charging fees to students amid the pandemic. They demanded that the government must direct all schools to waive off fees for the whole year, as a majority of parents were not in a position to pay school fees because of the lockdown. Terming the new farm laws recently passed by Parliament as anti-farmer, leaders said that the Congress will continue to hold demonstrations against the new laws, which they claimed will empower a handful of industrialists and harm farmers. Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi said the ‘Jan Aakrosh’ rally was beamed live on more than 200 specially erected screens in different districts. “Besides, the rally was live on multiple Facebook pages of the Congress party. Links were shared on several other social media platforms,” Doshi added.

The Times of India

2020-10-10

Ahmedabad