A 16-member team of the Special Protection Group (SPG) camping in the State is leaving no stone unturned in security preparations for the two-day visit of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to the State from Thursday.
The SPG team on Wednesday toured Bargarh to review the security arrangemnts. The Gandhi scion is scheduled to arrive at the Sambalpur airstrip and travel to Belbahali of Bargarh by road. He would address a farmers’ rally, hold a Padayatra there and meet party workers.
According to sources, he would spend night in Bargarh or Sambalpur and visit Bhubaneswar on Friday and visit the Cuttack Sishu Bhawan on the day.
Cuttack District Congress president Prakash Behera said, “Rahulji is scheduled to interact with the Sishu Bhawan authorities and discuss over the recent spurt in deaths of infants in the paediatric hospital and its lacunae.” He further informed that Rahul Gandhi would also visit the Swaraj Ashram currently hosting an exhibition on Mahatma Gandhi.