With the arrival of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi for campaigning in Punjab on Friday, the Congress is expected to go on a mega offensive against the Badals and Majithia. PCC president Capt Amarinder Singh and party’s star campaigner Navjot Singh Sidhu would join Gandhi in the campaign.
Rahul will arrive in Punjab on a three-day electioneering tour, the highlights of which will be joint public rallies with Capt Amarinder and Sidhu in Majitha, Jalalabad and lambi--the constitiuencies of Bikram Singh Majithia, Sukhbir Badal and Parkash Singh Badal.
Rahul Gandhi’s campaign will scale up the Congress offensive in all these three assembly segments and will further strengthen the wave in the party’s favour in the state.
Besides these three key assembly constituencies, Rahul Gandhi will also campaign in Rampura Phul. Talwandi Sabo and Bathinda Urban, besides Majthia, on the first day (January 27), followed by Jalalabad, Budhlada and Dhuri on January 28, when he will also meet industrialists in ludhiana.
January 29 has been scheduled for Rahul Gandhi’s public meetings in Gidderbaha and lambi.