In view of upcoming Assembly polls in Gujarat, All India Congress Committee (AICC) vice-president Rahul Gandhi will visit Saurashtra region for three days from Monday.
This would be his second visit in September 2017 as the scion of Gandhi-Nehru family came to Ahmedabad and addressed the party workers at picturesque Sabarmati Riverfront on September 4.
According to the sources in Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) the top Congress leader would kick-start his visit to Saurashtra region by offering prayer at pilgrimage Dwarka. From there he would travel to Jamnagar by road. En route, he would interact with locals, youth at various educational institutions, women and businessmen. After a night halt at Jamnagar, the 48-year-old leader from the opposition party would travel next day to Rajkot, again via road.
Rahul will make it a point to visit Khodaldham temple, the deity of Patidaar community, other than meeting locals and youth from Rajkot. On the third day of his stay in Saurashtra, he would travel from Rajkot to Surendranagar. Here too he is slated to visit Chotila and offer prayers to a local deity, before proceeding to Viramgam.
It is worth mentioning that Saurashtra region of the poll bound Gujarat is having great political significance in view of assembly polls with 58 assembly seats as out of 182. It is Saurashtra that had propped up fortunes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2007 and 2012 Assembly polls, especially at a time when BJP witnessed a tough fight in other parts of the State. The current Chief Minister Vijay Rupani too hails from the region.
The sources in GPCC revealed that the Congress vice-president is expected to visit South, Central and North Gujarat before the announcement of election dates for the State Assembly polls to be held in the December this year.