Prayagraj: Congress national in-charge Rajendra Pal Gautam has accused the central Modi government of taking away the right to vote from the country’s people. Addressing the Prayagraj Zone meeting at the Shankar Lal Memorial Auditorium on Sunday afternoon, he said that the BJP government at the center and in the states is completely dictatorial. To overthrow it, Congress members should participate in large numbers in the Delhi rally on November 1.

State Congress Committee President MLA Aradhana Mishra Mona said that Rahul Gandhi is fighting a decisive battle for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on the issue of vote theft and SIR. Praising the Congress party, she said that its contribution to the nation’s development during and after independence cannot be forgotten. She said that more than 100,000 people from across the state will participate in the rally to improve the electoral system.

In-charge National Secretary Varun Chaudhary claimed that more than 10 thousand party members from Prayagraj zone had joined. The zonal meeting was chaired by city Congress president Fuzal Hashmi.

The program was conducted by Kishore Varshney. CLP leader Virendra Chaudhary, former MLAs Anurag Narayan Singh, senior leader, Shekhar Bahuguna, Vijay Prakash, Anil Amitabh Dubey, Bhagwati Chaudhary, Anil Srivastava along with Sudhakar Tiwari, Harkesh Tripathi, Ashfaq Ahmed, Manish Mishra Shahid and hundreds of others were present.

Before this, the newly appointed President of the State Congress, Aradhana Mona and in-charge Rajendra Pal Gautam were welcomed at various places including Lal Gopalganj, Nawabganj, Kaudihar, Malaka Shantipuram, Teliyarganj, Balsan intersection on their arrival here by road.