Udaipur, May 15 (FN Agency) Almost 70 years after the call for ‘Bharat Chhodo’ or ‘Quit India’ against the British colonialists, the Congress on Sunday gave the call of ‘Bharat Jodo’ or ‘Unite India’, as Party President Sonia Gandhi announced a national Kanyakumari to Kashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra to beginning on Gandhi Jayanti this year. Sonia Gandhi, in her valedictory remarks at the end of the three day long ‘Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir’, said “We will overcome. That is our determination. That is our NavSankalp. The Congress will have a new Uday. That is our Nav Sankalp.” The Congress President said the brainstorming camp was successful, and said the recommendations of the different groups will be acted upon expeditiously. “We will launch a national Kanyakumari to Kashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra beginning on Gandhi Jayanti this year. All of us will participate in it. The Yatra is to strengthen the bonds of social harmony that are under stress, to preserve the foundational values of our Constitution that are under assault and to highlight the day-to-day concerns of crores of our people,” said the Congress president.
She also said the phase-2 of the district-level ‘Jan Jagran Abhiyan’, that had been launched earlier, will resume from June 15. “This extensive campaign will highlight economic issues, especially the growing unemployment and intolerable price rise that is destroying livelihoods.” A compact Task Force will be set up to drive the process of internal reforms in the Congress, and these reforms will focus on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls covering all aspects of the organization including structure, rules for appointments to party posts, communications and publicity, outreach, finances and election management. The composition of the Task Force will be notified in the next two-three days, said the Congress President. “I have also decided to have an advisory group drawn from the CWC that would meet regularly under my chairpersonship to discuss and deliberate upon political issues and challenges before our party.
Of course, we do have the CWC that meets from time to time and that will continue. The new group is not, however, a collective decision-making body but will help me get the benefit of the vast experience of senior colleagues. It too will be notified very soon,” she announced. The Congress President also added a “personal note” to her concluding remarks, and said, “Last night, I came away from the dinner so graciously hosted by Ashok Gehlot-ji, feeling that I had spent the evening with my family. I was touched when some of the younger guests shared the same view. I hope that this is the spirit in which we will disperse this evening.” The three day Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir ended here today. A series of announcements have been made by the party for organisational reforms, and for outreach to the masses.