Panchayat polls: SP chief to hold camps, cover 40 dists

LUCKNOW: Taking a leaf out of socialist icon and Samajwadi Party’s ideologue Ram Manohar Lohia, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav is holding brainstorming sessions for party cadres before the crucial 2022 assembly elections.
In the words of Akhilesh Yadav, he would be touring over 40 districts and covering half of the total 403 assembly constituencies before he concludes the first phase of the ‘Karyakarta prashikshan shivir’ (workers’ training camps) before the code of conduct for panchayat elections is enforced in the state around March 22.
Local workers and cadre are invited to attend the three-day training camps which would be held indoors where media won't be allowed. The concluding session of these camps would be addressed by Akhilesh. The party is inviting non-political personalities such as waterman Rajendra Singh and others to address the workers to sensitize them to public and political issues.
Talking to TOI, party MLC Udaiveer Singh, who has been organising the camps, said that over a dozen districts, including Kanpur City, Kannauj, Jhansi, Mirzapur, have already organised these camps which have proved beneficial to the SP workers in the run-up to the assembly elections.
During the indoor sessions, the party workers would freely interact with Akhilesh, said Udaiveer, considered to be a trusted man of the national president. At every training camp, workers of nearly 15 constituencies are invited, he added.
Meanwhile, veteran socialist Rajnath Sharma, who had been in jail during the emergency, recalled that similar camps, named as socialist study classes, were organised by Lohia. Those camps were addressed by experts of the socialist ideology for introspection and planning.