From Our Special Correspondent

Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Sep 3: With the 2024 Lok Sabha elections just six months away, the Karnataka Unit of the Congress Party has already begun the initial groundwork and set a target of winning at least 20 out of the 28 seats in the state.

Large and Medium Industries Minister M B Patil, who also serves as the chairman of the KPCC Election Campaign Committee, held its first full-fledged meeting with office-bearers of state and district-level campaign committees of the party in the assembly polls. He emphasized that the party should aim to maximize the benefits of implementing the party's election promises.

Patil, a prominent member of the Lingayat community, stressed that Congress leaders and workers must convey to the people that the credit for India's development over the last 75 years belongs to the Congress party and its leaders, rather than the BJP or Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been in power for only nine years.

Senior Congress leaders, including B L Shankar, Manjunath Bhandry, Kimmane Ratnakar, Sudhamadas, Yatindra Siddaramaiah, Ramesh Babu, U B Venkatesh, and other prominent figures attended the meeting.

Minister Patil highlighted that the establishment of premium institutions like IIMs, IITs, the Milk Revolution, Agricultural Revolution, Digital Revolution, as well as India's achievements in space and atomic energy, were all attributable to the Congress. He emphasized that the Congress had built most of the irrigation dams.

Patil also stressed the need to expand and make the present Election Campaign Committee more all-encompassing. He pledged to discuss this matter with AICC president Mallikarjuna Kharge and KPCC chief D K Shivakumar.