'Mane Manege Congress' campaign launched

Bengaluru, Sep 23: Countering the massive build up, the Bharatiya Janata Party has initiated to recapture power in Karnataka, the ruling Congress today fired its first volley by launching a campaign 'Congress at the doorsteps' (Mane Manege Congress). The launch saw Chief Minister Siddaramaiah AICC Congress incharge, K V Venugopal and Party President G Parameshwar visiting houses and offering a booklet highlighting the achievements of the Party. The campaign would cover all the 224 Assembly constituencies with leaders visiting every house and issuing the booklet. Simultaneously the Congress would also highlight the 'failures' of the BJP government at the centre. Mr Siddaramaiah, later addressing a public meeting, lashed out at the BJP government at the centre saying that its anti-people policies had put the lives of common people in distress and people in Karnataka will teach the saffron party a hard lesson in the next Assembly election. The two KPCC Working President S R Patil and Dinesh Gundurao, Election Campaign Committee President and Minister D K Shivakumar was among a large number of leaders who went to visit the homes in Mahadevapura locality in the city. The party also launched a programme to issue identification card to over 6.5 lakh booth committee members of the party who would man over 65,000 booths during the election time. Mr Parameshwar said the Congress party had fulfilled 155 out of 165 promises made in its manifesto before winning the 2013 election and the remaining would be fulfilled shortly. A Mangaluru report said, district in-charge Minister Ramanath Rai inaugurated campaign and said 'Mane Manege Congress campaign' aimed to take up welfare projects introduced by the state government to the doorstep of the general public. The campaign will enlighten the public on the achievements of the state government and failures of the Modi led NDA government at the Centre. 'We will now take Congress to the doorstep of the public. The objective is to maintain peace and harmony in society, to let know people on the achievements of the state government and failures of the central government,' he said. Chief whip of Legislative Council Ivan D'Souza, MLA J R Lobo, corporators Sabitha Misquith, Rauf, Akhila, D K Ashok and others were present. UNI