ELECTION INITIATIVE

Congress-Trinamul students' joint stir plan

COOCH BEHAR, March 31: After the joint programme of the Congress and the Trinamul Congress to support the alliance candidate Mr Arghya Roy Pradhan, the students wings of the two parties too came up to follow the line.

Today, the youth and students wings of both parties declared their joint plan in presence of the candidate. They will organise a massive rally at Sagardighi Square on 17 April in support of Mr Roy Pradhan. The presidents of Youth Congress and Trinamul Youth Congress - Mr Avijit Dey Bhaumik and Kumar Rajiv Narayan - too promised their support to the students' programme.

District Chhatra Parishad president Mr Rakesh Chaudhury and district Trinamul Chhatra Parishad president Mr Samir Chakraborty announced that they would organise motorbike and bicycle rallies in all the Assembly constituency areas under Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency after the Higher Secondary examination.

The CP and TCP leaders said the girl members would canvass among the women voters in girls' hostels, colleges, offices and in all residences.

As there were no engineering college, law college and medical college in Cooch Behar, the leaders hoped that if Mr Roy Pradhan gets elected he would do his best to add these facilities to this district. He may fulfil the plan of Mr Rajul Gandhi to form a Young Brigade, they said.

The CP and TCP leaders said they would organise joint movement to establish women's colleges in Tufanganj, Dinhata and Mathabhanga.

The Congress-Trinamul Congress alliance candidate Mr Arghya Roy Pradhan said, if elected, he would do his best to better the education sector in Cooch Behar. An AIIMS-style medical college and a Central university are needed in Cooch Behar, he said.