All India Congress Committee vice-president Rahul Gandhi will address a public meeting at Balasinor town in Central Gujarat on Tuesday, 11 March 2014.
The public rally of the Congress party’s ‘unannounced’ PM candidate is marked at closing ceremony of the Gujarat Congress’s initiative to organise a week-long ‘padyatra’ in all 26 lok Sabha constituencies in the State from March 4 to March 11.
This is the second visit of the Nehru-Gandhi family scion in his rival Narendra Modi’s home State in two months. last month he addressed a huge rally at tribal-dominated Bardoli area in South Gujarat. Sources in the Congress said that, many more rallies of Rahul as well as Sonia are being planned in the State. Gujarat Congress spokesman Manish Doshi said that leaders of the State Congress units would address nearly 1,000 public meetings in those villages having more than 2,000 population in 26 constituencies.
Besides, the party is also eying at organizing 2600 group meetings during the week, 100 meetings in each constituency, he informed, adding that large number of Gujarat Congress workers will walk at least 15 K.M. in every constituency. During the Padyatra, the local leaders in the Congress were spreading ‘achievement’ of the Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the past one decade, said Doshi adding that that include Food Security Bill, Right to Information Act, Right to Education Act to name a few.