The preparations for the proposed visit of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi are in final stages. The Congress leader is scheduled to visit Gwalior on October 17 and will address the Satta Parivartan rally of the party.
It may be mentioned here that a special team of Special Protection Group (SPG) arrived here on Monday and reviewed the security arrangements with local police officers. The SPG team was led by AIG AVS Kaliyar and the team reviewed the security arrangement with state IB ASP Sunil Kumar Pandey and Rekha and Additional SP of district police Virendra Jain.
The officers minutely observed the meeting venue and ordered to deploy the police jawans in view of security. The team also inspected the route from aerodrome to meeting place. The SPG officers also took information from district president Darshan Singh, seneral secretary of PCC Ashok Singh and former MlA Ramesh Agarwal.
In the Satta Parivartan rally of Congress, all the senior leaders of the party would participate. Giving this information to the press district Congress president Darshan Singh and Mohan Singh Rathore said that over 3 lakh people are expected to attend the rally.
Union Ministers Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia, AICC general secretary and State in-charge Mohan Prakash, Congress general secretary and former chief minister Digvijay Singh, State PCC president Kantilal Bhuria, leader of Opposition in State Assembly Ajay Singh, former PCC Chief Suresh Pachoui, MP Satyavrat Chaturvedi and secretary AICC Arun Yadav have come to Gwalior.