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Kharge and rahul meet north eastern leaders

Kharge, Rahul To Meet Leaders Of North Eastern States Tomorrow

By LokMarg

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former MP Rahul Gandhi will meet the leaders of North Eastern States Congress units except Assam on Saturday to discuss the election strategy for the upcoming general elections scheduled next year.

The meeting will be held at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) office at 10 am.
On Wednesday, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi held a meeting with leaders of the Uttarakhand Unit at the party headquarters in Delhi to review party preparedness for the upcoming Lok Sabha Polls in 2024.

During the meeting, former Chief Minister of Uttrakhand Harish Rawat and PCC Chief Karan Mahara also remained present.

A similar meeting was held with leaders of Maharashtra Congress and discussed strategies to strengthen the party’s roots in the state.

During the meeting, they held discussions with the leaders of the Maharashtra Congress and took stock of the prevailing political situation, chalking out a three-point strategy to strengthen its base in Maharashtra ahead of the 2024 Loksabha elections and assembly polls in the state.

Briefing reporters after the meeting, Congress general secretary, KC Venugopal, said that three major decisions were taken in the meeting. “All the senior leaders of the party will take responsibility for their Parliamentary constituencies. Secondly, from the month of September a ‘padayatra’ (foot march) will be carried out in every district of the state under a senior leader, which will be followed by a “bus yatra” in the month of December when all the leaders will jointly visit all the constituencies together,” Venugopal said.

“The meeting was quite fruitful and lasted for four hours and all the leaders have a unanimous belief that the Congress will sweep the parliamentary elections in Maharashtra. During the meeting Rahul Gandhi specially referred to the Maharashtra leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra where he got a phenomenal response, which was among the best in the country,” he said further. (ANI)

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Wrestlers Justice

Wrestlers Justice: Rawat Leads Protest In Dehradun

By LokMarg

Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Tuesday staged a sit-in protest in Dehradun with several opposition parties and demanded justice for the female wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar in the national capital against Wrestling Federation of India chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

The former state’s Chief Minister protested in Dehradun’s Gandhi Park from 10 am to 12 noon today and expressed solidarity with the women wrestlers.
The senior Congress leader said that following an all-party meeting, it was decided that all the opposition parties will close in ranks against the lack of action against Bhushan and also the works of the Uttarakhand government.

“It is a good effort by the party and I congratulate the Uttarakhand Congress and all the political parties who are concerned about protecting the constitutional democracy of the country,” Rawat said.

Former State minister and Congress leader, Navprabhat said that they have contacted every party, opposing the BJP, to unite against the ruling party’s policies.

Several ace grapplers including Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshee Mallik have been protesting for over a month at the Jantar Mantar, Delhi, accusing the WFI chief of sexual harassment and demanding his arrest.

On May 19, the wrestlers marched from Jantar Mantar to Bangla Sahib Gurudwara in New Delhi on their 25th day of protest against Brij Bhushan.

Grapplers including Punia, Sakshi, Vinesh and others joined the march demanding the arrest of the WFI chief charged with sexual harassment of athletes.

The protestors have been demanding the registration of an FIR against the WFI chief and his arrest into the allegations of sexual harassment. Two separate FIRs were registered on April 28 following the Supreme Court’s notice to Delhi Police into the plea filed by the wrestlers.

Earlier on April 24, The Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports announced that the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will be forming an ad-hoc committee to conduct the elections for the Executive Committee of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) within 45 days of its formation, to manage day-to-day affairs of the body, including the selection of athletes and making entries for the participation of players in international events. This committee will be functioning for an interim period till a new Executive Committee takes charge.

Delhi Police has filed a status report on the application moved by women wrestlers in an alleged offence of sexual offence levelled against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

Earlier this year, prominent wrestlers came forward to lead a protest against the WFI chief, following which the Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Anurag Thakur, announced the formation of an ‘oversight committee’ to probe allegations against the WFI, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and some coaches. (ANI)

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