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BANGALORE, SEPT. 19. D.S. Nawaz, photo-journalist and photographer to the former Chief Minister, the late R. Gundu Rao, has put together a compact disc that tracks the role of the oldest political party in the freedom movement and the progress achieved while it was in power. The CD, "Mukti Mattu Munnade", a documentary film on the Congress, was released here today by Oscar Fernandes, Union Minister for Programme Implementation and Statistics.
`Need to counter BJP'
The Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Rahman Khan, who presided over the function, said there was a need to counter the claims of the Bharatiya Janata Party that it had ushered in greater development during its six years in power than the Congress during its over 50-year rule. The documentary itself, redolent of the newsreels of yore that all cinemas screened before the start of the movies, traces India's freedom struggle from the time of the 1857 First War of Independence, the coming of Gandhiji, the attainment of freedom, Pandit Nehru hoisting the tricolour and "India wakening to Freedom," and runs the course through Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, and the sacrifice of the Congress President, Sonia Gandhi, in spurning the office of Prime Minister after the recent general elections, to make Manmohan Singh Prime Minister. Mr. Nawaz called it a bird's eye view of 119 years of the Congress. He wanted to counter the anti-Congress propaganda of the BJP and its allies, claiming that the over 50 years of Congress rule had been the "dark age", and that motivated him to make the documentary. The former KPCC President, V.S. Koujalgi, and the former Minister, Ramalinga Reddy, attended the function.
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