Congress to perform mass protest at Ramlila Maidan on Dec 1 over “Economic Slowdown”

Days after
announcing that it will hold over 35 press conferences from November 1 to 8
against the Centre’s handling of the ongoing economic crisis in the country,
the Congress on Wednesday said it will hold another mega rally on December 1 at
Ramlila Maidannews against the Centre for the same reason.

This time,
the party will hold the rally along with other political parties and will
highlight the economic slowdown and the agrarian crisis being faced by the
country.

The Congress
had also said that it will voice its concerns against the government over
issues such as economic slowdown, unemployment, agrarian crisis and the RCEP.

Earlier,
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala had said the rally in December
will be addressed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former party chief Rahul
Gandhi and AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

The development
came after party’s interim president Sonia Gandhi held a meeting with the
party’s general secretaries, state in-charges and heads of frontal
organisations at the AICC headquarters on Saturday.

The mass
protest across India and the national capital is aimed against the government’s
policies which the party claimed had led to an economic slowdown, unemployment
and agrarian crisis.

The
development comes as former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh earlier this month
had highlighted India’s economic condition, saying that, the much-advertised
double engine model of the BJP government has utterly failed.

The Congress
has also planned to hold a protest against the controversial Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) agreement which the Central
government did not sign in Bangkok, keeping the interest of the nation in mind.