Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is very enthused about his proposed 'Deoria to Delhi Kisan yarta' starting from Deoria on coming Tuesday. Rahul’s move was taken as a big step for the Party to launch `Mission Uttar Pradesh 2017’ to win coming Assembly polls.
This time Congress will launch an unique programme of `Khat Sabha’, conceived by poll strategist Prashant Kishor, where Gandhi will interact with farmers in every districts during his month long yatra.
"Six September se shuru Deoria se delhi meri yatra abhiyan hai garibo, kisano aur majdooro ko sarkari sansadhan me unke haq dilane ka ( my Deoria to Delhi yatra from September 6 is a campaign to get the rights of the poor, farmers and labourers in the government funds). This was tweeted by Rahul Gandhi through his official twitter handle on Saturday.
Meanwhile according to the first day programme of the Yatra, it will start from Pachaldi Kritpura village in Rudrapur assembly constituency in Daub area at 10:30 am on coming Tuesday. The first khat sabha would be held at Dudhnath Baba Mandir maidan at 11:50 am for over an hour. later Gandhi will hold a road show on Rudrapur road covering around 2.7 kilometers. Congress vice president will also interact with farmers at Kanchanpur village in Deoria before entering Kushinagar at around 5:15 pm. The yatra will remain in Kushinagar district for about three hours with holding its second khat sabha of the day at lilawati stadium at 6:30pm. The yatra will end at Gorakhpur on day one at around 9:30 pmwhen Gandhi will reach circuit house for night stay.
The yatra from Deoria is chosen as the district was native of famous Deoraha Baba, whom the former prime minister Indira Gandhi sought blessings both before 1977 and later in 1980 and won polls by huge margins. Rahul now ambitious to ensure a come back would also seek blessings before kicking off his campaign for next Assembly elections. In these khat meeting around 70 to 80 farmers would sit on the charpoy and Gandhi would interact with them personally by going to their place.
According to Congress, Party's vice president will undergo the longest 2500 kilometers long yatra during which he along with party workers will personally go door-to-door to seek the farmers support for debt waiver relief for them. During the next 30 days from September 6, around 2.5 lakh congress workers will go to over 2 crore houses. On their house to house contact the workers will seek a demand paper from the farmers, discuss their problems and will assure the farmers that once a Congress government comes to power in UP their demands would be met. The Congress workers will also stick a sticker on the doors of each of the family they visit.