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Congress Gears Up For Polls In Bihar

By ugesh sarkar, Section Election News
Posted on Sat Jul 03, 2010 at 12:28:11 AM EST

With state assembly elections just a few months away, the Congress has decided to send its top leaders, including Union ministers, to Bihar on a whirlwind tour of the state this month to accelerate the party's poll cam-paign.

Senior party leaders and Union ministers Ghulam Nabi Azad, C P Joshi, Anand Sharma, Sri Prakash Jaiswal, Sachin Pilot, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Krishna Tirath and Bharatsinh Solanki are being sent to the state to hold meetings organized by the party's state unit to boost the morale of the Congress workers.

Union minister and AICC general secretary, in-charge Bihar, Mukul Wasnik will visit Gaya and Jehanabad on July 3 and address district-level convention of party workers. Wasnik would also visit Ara and Buxar on July 4 and Bhabhua and Sasaram on July 5 to attend the workers' conven-tion there.

Scindia will visit Vaishali and Patna on July 7 while Jaiswal would visit Siwan, Gopalganj and Bettiah on July 13 and 14. Union minister Sachin Pilot would visit Arwal, Jehanabad, Nalanda and Bakhtiyarpur on July 16 and 17 while Union minister Krishna Tirath would visit Khagaria, Saharsa and Madhepura on July 14 and 15 where she would address party workers.

Source: Times Of India By Alok Mishra Congress gears up for polls

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Congress MP and noted Bollywood actor Raj Babbar would address party workers at Kishanganj, Araria, Purnia and Katihar on July 11 and 12 while party MP Sanjay Nirupam would visit Bhojpur, Buxar and Kaimur on July 13 and 14. Union minister of state for power Bharatsinh Solanki would address party workers at Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Samastipur and Chhapra on July 21 and 22.

BPCC president Mehboob Ali Qaiser, AICC secretary Sagar Raika, AICC minority cell national president Imran Kidwai, Congress Legislature Party leader in the state assembly Ashok Kumar, party's leader in the legislative council Mahachandra Prasad Singh, former state assembly Speaker Sadanand Singh, Chandan Bagchi and Ramjatan Sinha would accompany the Union ministers during their tour across the state.

BPCC chief spokesperson Prem Chandra Mishra said that the Congress has blown the bugle for the assembly elections in Bihar. He described the tour of Union ministers as a part of electioneering. The poll campaign of the party was launched by Wasnik at Kishanganj on June 21.

Mishra said that the Congress believes in taking all the people along but would focus more on the minority community. Even the Union ministers, who would be touring the state, are from different castes, he said. The Congress programmes would overshadow the activities of different politi-cal parties in the state, he said.

He added the Congress would organize a state-level rally at the Gandhi Maidan probably in August. The party would field its candidates from all the 243 assembly constituencies in the state in the assembly elec-tions. The Congress would not have any alliance with other parties, including LJP and RJD, Mishra said.

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