Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will be on a day long visit to his lok Sabha constituency Amethi on coming Wednesday. Besides making review of the implementation of various schemes taken up by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, Congress yuvraj would also join the 'Vikas Janchetna Padyatra' to boost the morale of the workers.
``We launched 'Vikas Janchetna Padyatra' in all 16 blocks of Rahul Gandhi’s constituency on Saturday’, disclosed general secretary of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) Deepak Singh, while talking over telephone in the evening. He claimed that during the yatra, the Party leaders would travel on foot from one village to another covering all the 16 blocks of Amethi in order to create awareness about the achievements of Manmohan Singh's government.
The yatra is being leaded by the presidents of block units in their respective areas who would appriselocals about Rahul's vision for development in the constituency. The yatra will cover a distance of about 45-50 kilometre and propagate UPA's policies through nukkad natak and chaupals besides distributing pamphlets, he said.
Deepak Singh, who look after both Amethi and Rae Bareli Parliament constituencies under particular guidance of Priyanka Gandhi, further said that to boost up the morale of the workers, local Member of Parliament and their leader, Rahul Gandhi would also reach Amethi on coming Wednesday during which he is also likely to join the Yatra.
Sources said that Rahul this time could also hold chupals in some villages to make direct interaction with the villagers in order to extract their opinion of on-going development work in the area.
Sources also said that during his day-long visit, Rahul would also listen to the problems of the people and may also meet the party workers. Besides, the Congress leader would review implementation of various central schemes including MGNREGA and works being done from his MP fund.