Congress president Rahul Gandhi will kick-off his party’s campaign for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh by addressing a rally in Lucknow on February 10.
Leaders of UP Congress Committee are busy giving final touches to the preparations.
“Rahul Gandhi has given his nod to launch the poll campaign by addressing a rally in Lucknow on February 10. He will spread the campaign by addressing one rally each in every zone of the state,” a UPCC leader said.
“We all are busy preparing a base by strengthening the organisation up to the booth level. We will show the opposition parties that the Congress is no pushover in UP and we will win the maximum number of seats in the coming parliamentary elections,” he said.
Sources said that senior leaders supervising the preparations for Rahul’s Lucknow rally were dissatisfied with the progress made so far. They warned all district party chiefs who had so far failed to provide names of leaders at block and booth levels.
Meanwhile, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will visit their respective parliamentary constituencies, Rae Bareli and Amethi, for two days from January 23.
Both leaders will reach Fursatganj airport by a chartered aircraft in the morning of January 23. While Sonia Gandhi will go to Rae Bareli from the airport, Rahul will head to Amethi. However, both will stay for the night at Bhue Mau guest house in Rae Bareli.
Representative of Sonia Gandhi at Rae Bareli, KL Sharma, said in Lucknow on Monday that Sonia Gandhi would meet party leaders and could visit some selected villages to review development works.
Before leaving for Delhi on January 24, the UPA chairperson would hold a ‘janata darshan’ at Bhue Mau guest house along with Rahul Gandhi and then attend a meeting of district development monitoring and vigilance committee.
Sonia Gandhi would be visiting her constituency after a long time.
Rahul would also visit a couple of villages in Amethi and attend the district development monitoring and vigilance committee meetings.