The Nationalist Congress Party is entering its ninth year on the coming Sunday.The week-long programmes will be led by Supriya Sule
Party to discuss socio-economic, environmental and similar issues
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), founded and launched on June 10, 1999, is entering its ninth year on the coming Sunday. However, all the week-long programmes organised to mark the party’s eighth Foundation Day are not political in nature — instead they are all related to issues that are quintessentially socio-economic — environmental, unemployment, population explosion, child labour and other similar issues.
The week-long programmes will neither be led by its State Unit President nor its Deputy Chief Minister. Instead these programmes will be led by Supriya Sule - the party’s new Rajya Sabha MP and daughter of NCP president
Sharad Pawar.
After the launch a year later on its first anniversary the NCP got recognised as a national party by the Election Commission (EC). Today, the NCP has its presence in as many as 18 states, including Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.
In its first-ever assembly and general elections in Maharashtra and North-Eastern states, the NCP won 58 assembly seats in Maharashtra, 4 in Arunachal Pradesh, 15 in Meghalaya, 3 in Kerala, 1 in Goa, 1 in Haryana and 5 in Manipur and 8 parliamentary seats in the country (7 in Maharashtra and 1 in Manipur).
Madan Bafna, official spokesperson of the state unit of NCP, on Thursday gave details of the programmes that are being organised by the state unit from June 10 to June 16.“On day one, guidance camps will be organised for the unemployed, while on the second day medical camps, symposiums and conventions on issues like increasing atrocities against women, child labour and adoption of malnourished kids will also be held. The third day will take care of workers’ conventions on industrialisations,” said Bafna. Similar conventions, symposiums will be organised on issues like welfare of weaker sections, minorities, dalits and tribals.
Given the spate in farmer suicide, a time-bound programme will be chalked out to implement a one-action programme to combat the evil. Also on the cards is a peace march to fight communal forces in the country. On the last day a dialogue will be started through a symposium on environment, increasing population and related issues.
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