The Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee has completed arrangements for the visit of party’ National vice president Rahul Gandhi who is to attend a meeting with the booth level workers at Rishikesh on Monday. The Congress vice president is the chief guest at a meet of the Congress heads at the booth, bazaar and village levels and also expected to guide the party cadre in view of the Vidhan Sabha election 2017. This is the first visit of its kind by a senior party leader and that too its vice president Rahul Gandhi to the state since the announcement of the Vidhan Sabha election 2017 schedule.
According to the PCC chief spokesman Mathura Datt Joshi, the party’s National vice president is slated to reach the programme in Rishikesh at 10 AM on Monday. The meeting of the party heads at the booth, bazaar and village levels is to be held at DSB International College compound where the Congress vice president is slated to interact with and address the party’s office bearers concerned. In addition to the workers of the party, all members of the parliament of the Congress from Uttarakhand, ex-MPs, party MlAs, ex-MlAs, PCC office bearers, heads of the party at the city, district, village and other levels apart from heads of the party’s various cells and departments and frontal organisations along with Congress heads of local bodies have also been invited to the programme. A couple of days ago, the PCC president Kishore Upadhyay had visited the programme venue to check the arrangements made for the visit of Rahul Gandhi and has already appealed to all the party workers to attend the programme in large numbers. The PCC chief spokesman further informed that Rahul Gandhi will be providing guidance to the party workers in view of the Vidhan Sabha election. Apart from this, the Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat will also be informing the party cadre about the achievements of the Congress-led State Government during the meeting, informed Joshi.