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PANJIM: After a controversy broke out between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, both the parties have now announced programmes to create awareness among the people about their respective stand on the Constitution
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The Congress will launch year-long ‘Jai Bapu Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan Abhiyan’ from January 26 while, the BJP declared that it will celebrate Samvidhan Parv and year-long celebration on Atal Jayanti.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, All India Congress Committee (AICC) Goa desk in charge Manikrao Thakare on Monday said that ‘Jai Bapu Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan Abhiyan’ will be launched in the State on January 26 and every block Congress committee will organise programmes in their respective blocks on Saturdays and Sundays.
For the successful implementation of the programme, a committee was constituted under the chairmanship of Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Amit Patkar and senior vice president M K Shaikh as its coordinator. The committee also comprises party’s three MLAs, former GPCC president Girish Chodankar and former Union Minister Ramakant Khalap as its members. However, Leader of the Opposition Yuri Alemao, MLA Altone D’Costa and many senior leaders abstained.
Thakare said that the party workers will go door-to-door and awaken and tell people how the BJP and the RSS was insulting the architect of India’s Constitution Babasaheb Ambedkar and demeaning the Constitution.
To counter the Congress party’s allegations of ruling party defaming Ambedkar, BJP State vice president Chandrakant ‘Babu’ Kavalekar on Monday said that the party will celebrate Samvidhan Parv across the State from January 11 to 25. During the fortnight, various programmes including public meetings and essay competitions will be organised for students of higher secondary schools and colleges.
On January 25, all BJP Mandals will meet and read out Preamble of the Constitution of India, said Kavalekar, who has been appointed as convenor of the Samvidhan Parv celebration committee.
