The Congress will launch a mass agitation/contact programme named “Jan Jagran Abhiyan” between 14-29 November 2021 which will help Congress workers reach out to the maximum number of people across the country to “strengthen the people’s voice against the unprecedented price rise in petrol, cooking gas, diesel, CNG, cooking oil, pulses and other essential commodities”. K.C. Venugopal, general secretary (organization), All India Congress Committee (AICC), said this in his joint conference with Congress senior leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala and Digvijaya Singh. Venugopal said that party workers will reach out to the maximum number of people and tell them how the BJP has wronged the poor in multiple ways.
State level trainers shall conduct a training programme at the Parliament, Assembly and sector levels. An AICC training camp will be organised for state level trainers from 12-15 November 2021 at Sevagram, Wardha, Maharashtra, with specific emphasis on issues pertaining to the “Jan Jagran Abhiyan”.
Recalling the famous “Dandi March”, Congress will launch the logo of “Jan Jagran Abhiyan” and release a pamphlet with facts about price rise, its repercussions and a questionnaire about people’s prevailing predicament.
At the press conference, Digvijaya Singh said: “The logo depicts the Dandi March because Mahatma Gandhi led the Dandi March against the tax on salt which hit every household; similarly, increase in gas and inflation has hit every household.” He added: “The agitation will be women centric because when Mahatma Gandhi announced he will initiate the Dandi March on tax, out of 39,000 protesters, 19,000 were women.”
The press conference emphasized upon inflation and uncontrolled price rise, e.g prices of mustard and other edible oils that have doubled in the last one year: seasonal vegetable prices have increased by 40-50% in a month: the cost of subsidised LPG cylinder that has gone up by 50% to Rs 900-1,000 in the last one year. Similarly, petrol and diesel prices have gone up by Rs 34.38 and 24.38 to Rs 103.97 and Rs 86.67 per litre respectively in the last 18 months.
