Keeping up the attack on the BJP over the alleged embezzlement of donations and offerings at Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, the Himachal Congress will on Tuesday march to temples in all district headquarters and pray for the BJP to be blessed with “good senses”. Last Tuesday, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu led a Congress march to Ram Mandir in Shimla, where the Congress leaders and party workers offered prayers and sought “good sense” for the BJP.
The Congress is taking the temple-visit strategy to the district and block levels to corner the BJP. All District Congress presidents, from Shimla to Chamba, are geared up to take out the march in their respective districts.
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“We will take a protest from the Congress headquarters to the Ram Mandir, offer our prayers and seek wisdom for the BJP from Lord Rama,” said Inderjeet Singh, president, District Congress Committee, Shimla. In Chamba, the Congress will sit in front of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue. “There’s a lot of resentment among people over the issue. They feel cheated and let down by the BJP. Through our campaign, we want people to see and understand the reality of the BJP who had become self-proclaimed guardians of the Hindu religion,” said Surjeet Bharmouri, president, District Congress Committee, Chamba.
A Congress leader, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the Congress was not politicising the issue, but merely making people aware of what had happened. “Isn’t it the responsibility of the main opposition party of the country to expose a scam of this scale? We are just doing that,” he said.
Besides, the Youth Congress today launched “Chhatron ki Goonj”, under which the Youth Congress and NSUI, the student wing of the Congress, will organise protests against paper leak from the district to village levels. State Youth Congress president Chhattar Singh Thakur said the main demands of the campaign were leak-free examinations and a robust accountability mechanism, a probe into the paper leak mafia and the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.