State Congress leaders and cadres are all set to welcome AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi who is scheduled to pay a two-day visit to the State on September 10 and 11.
Rahul would address a farmers’ rally titled Chashi Banchao Andolon at Bargarh on September 10 and visit Cuttack Sishu Bhawan on the next day. PCC president Prasad Harichandan told a press conference here that the farmers’ rally would be organised from Deybahal to Atabira covering 7 km in Bargarh district in protest against farmers’ suicide due to distress sale of paddy and debt burden.
Rahul Gandhi would arrive at Jamadarpally on September 10 and join the rally at Deybahal by 9.30 am. He would meet Adivasi farmers of Rengali camp, laderpally and other villages en route Atabira. He would address the rally at Atabira at 4 pm. Then he would address a press meet and spend the night at Burla.
On September 11, the Congress icon would land on the Sunshine Ground in Cuttack and would visit the Sardar Ballav Bhai Patel Paediatric Institute (Sishu Bhawan) by 10 am.
He would arrive at Bhubaneswar airport by 11.45 am. Thereafter, he would attend the PCC working committee meeting at the Congress Bhawan here by 12 noon.
Rahul is also scheduled to meet chit fund investors and civil society representatives at a programme to be held at the Utkal Mandap by 4.15 pm. He would leave for Delhi by evening, Harichanda said.