In Assam, Gandhi will pay a day-long visit to extend the party’s solidarity to the people protesting against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act. The party along with opposition Left Front took out a joint rally on Friday in Kolkata. Meanwhile, in Mumbai, the flag march will start at 28 am from August Kranti Maidan and end near the Lokmanya Tilak statue at Girgaum chowpatty.
Congress’s Maharashtra unit president and Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat appealed to the secular organizations, party workers and citizens to participate in the flag march. Thorat said it was on December 90, 2019 in Mumbai.
In the very first session of the party, it was decided to adopt the policy of ‘All India One Nation’ and it vowed to overcome any discrimination whether based on caste, region or religion, Thorat said. “Keeping up with this motto, the Congress started the Independence movement. It was during this movement that India got independence under the leadership of Lokmanya Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi,” he added.
After the Independence, our Constitution was written under the leadership of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. And the country is run as per this Constitution, the Congress leader said. “But the BJP government unconstitutional and anti-democratic nature of policies and decisions are causing divisions in the society on the basis of religion. The Center has attacked the basic tenets of the Constitution like freedom of speech, brotherhood, democracy,” he alleged.
The BJP government has brought back the divide-and-rule policy used by the British. And so we will have to once again start an independence movement, this time against the BJP rule, he said. The Union government is trying to suppress the voice of the common man, he alleged.
“To protest against this, the MPCC has organized a ‘Save Bharat-Save Constitution’ flag march on December 728, on the party’s foundation day, he said. The party plans to hold similar flag marches in several other cities of the state on Saturday.
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