Farmers Movement Archive

NCP boss Pawar to address rally in Ranchi

Ranchi: Hussainabad MLA and the state president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Kamlesh Kumar Singh, on Friday said that their party chief Sharad Pawar will address a state-level party workers’ meet at the Harmu ground on Sunday. Addressing a press conference on Friday, Singh said that Pawar will be accompanied by other national officer bearers of the NCP — including Rajya Sabha MP Praful Patel, Fauzia Khan, Dheeraj Sharma and Soniya Duhan. Pawar being a former Union agriculture minister is expected to speak on the farm laws during the rally. Singh said: “We are the largest constituent of the United Progressive Alliance in the country after the Congress and we have extended our support to Hemant Soren’s government in the state without any conditions. Our national leadership is visiting the state in order to meet party workers and strengthen our presence in Jharkhand so that we are in a position to contest more seats in the Lok Sabha as well as the Vidhan Sabha polls.” “We are expecting more than 20,000 party workers at the rally. The visit of the top party leadership will surely enthuse NCP workers in the state,” Singh said. On being asked how many parliamentary and legislative constituencies were they eyeing to contest in the forthcoming elections, Singh said: “We will contest in at least three parliamentary and around a dozen legislative constituencies in Jharkhand in the future.”

The Times of India

2021-03-06

Ranchi