Pune: Congress State President Harshvardhan Sapkal has called on party workers and office-bearers in Pimpri-Chinchwad to hit the streets in protest against the alleged corruption in the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation during the previous administration and under the current bureaucratic regime. Sapkal also urged leaders to ramp up voter registration and energize party workers with new organizational strategies ahead of the forthcoming PCMC elections.
Speaking at a meeting held at Tilak Bhavan in Dadar, Sapkal instructed party members to draw up a plan to elect the maximum number of Congress corporators in the next elections. “The party must focus on booth-level voter registration across all 32 wards and 128 seats,” Sapkal stated, pointing to the 2017 ward structure.
He also encouraged aspirants to implement initiatives guided by local leadership and directed all office-bearers to intensify protests against corruption in the municipal corporation.
Sapkal assured that candidate selection would take place after consultations with state-appointed observers and local leaders. “We are determined to fight this election united,” Sapkal said.
The meeting also included in-depth discussions on campaign strategies, strengthening the party’s grassroots structure, and rolling out initiatives to bolster voter outreach across the Pimpri, Chinchwad, and Bhosari assembly constituencies.
City Congress president Dr. Kailas Kadam briefed the attendees on the party’s work over the past three years, including protests against PCMC’s corruption and booth-level voter drives. “We will contest the elections together as one team,” Kadam assured.
Prominent Congress leaders present at the meeting included Adv. Ganesh Patil, Babu Nair, Ashok More, Manoj Kamble, Abhimanyu Dahitule, Kaustubh Nawale, Tushar Patil, Mayur Jaiswal, Adv. Aniruddha Kamble, Vishwanath Jagtap, Vitthal Shinde, Saji Varki, Somnath Shelke, Hiraman Khawale, Babasaheb Bansode, Abubakar Landge, Gaurav Chaudhary, Nirmala Khaire, Priyanka Kadam, Deepali Bhalerao, Gauri Shelar, George Mathew, Umesh Bansode, Chandrakant Londhe, Bharat Walhekar, Vishal Saravade, Ravi Nangare, Nikhil Bhoir, Rahul Shimple, Milind Phadtare, Kundan Kasbe, Bhimrao Jadhav, Vijay Ovhal, Xavier Anthony, Gautam Ovhal, Yunus Bagwan, Vikas Kamble, Dinkar Bhalerao, Shashi Nair, Aba Kharade, Ashutosh Khaire, Praveen Kamble, Irfan Shaikh, Amit More, Ganesh Bandpatte, Sahil Pawar, and other party office-bearers.
