Nagpur: Kharge, Sonia, Rahul set to address Congress’s ‘Hain Tayyar Hum’ rally

With the Lok Sabha polls just a few months away, the Congress is gearing up for the election season. The party is scheduled to commence its campaign on Thursday with a rally titled “Hain Tayyar Hum (We are ready)” in Nagpur, marking its 139th foundation day.

Nagpur houses the RSS headquarters and Deekshabhoomi, where B R Ambedkar embraced Buddhism. There is also the Congress’s relationship with the city, returning to India’s Independence.

Shubhangi Khapre and Vallabh Ozarkar write that it was at the Congress’s Nagpur Session held in December 1920 that the party under Mahatma Gandhi’s leadership gave a clarion call for the launch of the non-cooperation movement against the British.

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Historic Congress Session in Nagpur and Preparations for Grand Rally

At the Congress’s another session held in Nagpur in 1959, Indira Gandhi was elected as the AICC chief. The Maharashtra Congress is all geared up for the grand rally, which will see the participation of a legion of the Congress leaders and activists from across the country.

Addressing a press conference Wednesday, Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole said: “Whenever the country faced trouble, the Congress pitched in and a big change took place in the country. After the Emergency, (the then prime minister) Indira Gandhi held a public meeting in Nagpur and the Congress then won all the seats from Vidarbha. History will repeat in Nagpur and a big parivartan (change) will take place in the country.”

The venue of Thursday’s rally is located in Nagpur’s Dighori Naka area, which the Congress has dubbed “Bharat Jodo Ground” in a reference to Rahul’s Yatra.

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