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Has Congress dedicated rip-off in its anti-farm legal guidelines signature marketing campaign?

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A comical improvement is happening inside the Congress get together. A day earlier than Gita Jayanti, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi met President Kovind and claimed to have submitted a memorandum with 2 crore signatures looking for his intervention on the matter of newly handed farm legal guidelines. There seems to be a minor concern with the signature marketing campaign, nonetheless.
New Delhi: Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad & Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury met the President earlier at the moment & submitted a memorandum containing 2 crore signatures looking for his intervention in farm legal guidelines concern. pic.twitter.com/Sqy6xdhNzw— ANI (@ANI) December 24, 2020
Jagran has reported that Congress leaders in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Bihar don’t know how the marketing campaign was run, when it begun and when it ended or the place the signatures got here from. There was no coordination between completely different items of the get together both however, by some means, towards all odds, the get together managed to conjure 2 crore signatures towards farm legal guidelines.
The story in Bihar
State leaders in Bihar don’t appear to know a lot concerning the signature marketing campaign. Madan Mohan Jha, Bihar Congress President, mentioned that the marketing campaign was launched a while in the past however then, the Assembly Elections occurred and the expansion of the marketing campaign was stalled. According to Jagran, he didn’t seem to know a lot else, together with when the marketing campaign started and ended.
Ajeet Sharma, chief of the get together within the Assembly, mentioned that such a marketing campaign by no means even occurred. Spokesperson Rajesh Rathod insisted that the marketing campaign went on for a very long time however he, too, couldn’t present particular data relating to the period of the marketing campaign.
Nobody may reply who exactly submitted the collected signatures to the nationwide Congress management at Delhi or when was it submitted. When pressed for extra data, Rathod mentioned that he’ll present solutions as soon as he has extra data of the matter.
The story in Haryana
The story was fairly related in Haryana. Neither or residents of Congress karyakartas appeared to concentrate on when the signature marketing campaign befell. Jagran stories that the Congress get together managed to fill whole vans with bundles of signatures. But the place the bundles of signatures got here from, Congress doesn’t seem to have a solution to that. In truth, Congress employees in Haryana are themselves astonished as to when and the way the signatures had been collected.
Meanwhile, the organizational construction of the get together is in full disarray based on Jagran and no person was keen to touch upon the assist lent to the marketing campaign by former CM Bhupendra Singh Hooda and his supporters. Units of the get together such Mahila Congress, Youth Congress or NSUI weren’t seen in any outstanding function both.
Signature Campaign in Yogi’s UP
Jagran reported that of the two crore signatures submitted to President Kovind, 50 lakh had been from Uttar Pradesh. And all of this was achieved with none seen marketing campaign on the bottom and with out assist from even the completely different items of the get together. Kisan Congress, for cases, had no clue concerning the signature marketing campaign.
Spokesperson Brijendra Kumar Singh mentioned that the Youth Congress will need to have carried out signature marketing campaign and he wanted to verify the knowledge earlier than conveying it. Kanishk Pandey, president Youth Congress japanese zone, mentioned that Youth Congress didn’t take part within the marketing campaign and the state unit of the Congress get together will need to have run it.
Another Congress spokesperson took about one and a half to come back again with some data. The marketing campaign apparently befell from August to November. Kisan Congress chief Tarun Patel, nonetheless, denied having any data of it. Another Kisan chief did acknowledge the signature marketing campaign however had no concept what number of signatures had been collected. In the tip, the individual compiling the information mentioned that the signatures had been meant to be submitted earlier than Diwali however had been being submitted now.