Congress president Rahul Gandhi will attend various programmes in Madhya Pradesh on September 17. Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath gave this information while talking to media persons here on Tuesday.
“Rahul Gandhi will be on a day-long visit to MP on September 17. In Bhopal, he will address a meeting of state-level party leaders,” Nath said, adding that he would later visit a district, which is yet to be decided, to address a public meeting.
Nath further said in the last week of September Gandhi would formally launch the party's campaign for this year's state Assembly polls, although the programme was yet to be finalised. He said the party would bring out a 'vachan patra' (a note of promises) instead of the election manifesto. "We will bring out a 'vachan patra', which is being finalised. We will give promises to the electorate instead of making any announcements," he said.
To a query, on the party's distribution of tickets in the upcoming polls, Nath said, “Initially, our focus will be on 80 seats, where the party has not won for a long time. We are getting peoples' survey on these seats and expecting to finalise the names by September 10-12. We will also keep the caste equation in our mind before taking a final decision.” He added that the state party has no dearth of capable leaders.