The senior party leader on Sunday welcomed the party chief s initiative of bringing like-minded political parties together, but urged her to strengthen her own party, saying no Opposition unity is possible without it. Sibal, however, said he along with other leaders of the "Group of 23" would continue to demand reforms in the grand old party.
"Party leaders and functionaries will spend 75 hours in a village panchayat in each of the 75 districts of the state. They will stay in the village panchayat for a little over three days in the 30,000 identified villages of the state. Through this, the party aims to reach directly to 90 lakh people," Dheeraj Gurjar, co-incharge of UP at the AICC, said.
With the Taliban taking over Afghanistan, Congress on Monday asked the Modi government to wake up from its slumber and protect Indians in the strife-torn country.
"The present day rulers must take care that seeds of another partition should not be sown from the earlier pain," an editorial in the Sena mouthpiece Saamana said. It said the pain of partition remains even after 75 years, and BJP s L K Advani is the only leader who is a witness to it.