With Bharatiya Janta Party and Samajwadi Party already taking a lead by organising rallies and launching a massive campaign for the coming Parliament elections, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will finally kick start the Party’s campaign for formation of United Progressive Alliance (Third) in the Centre from coming Friday.
Rahul's who will be on a two day visit to the State would land in lucknow on Friday morning. He is first schedule to make interaction with the editors of the prominent local newspapers at a star hotel on VVIP Road. later he will take Saheed Path to reach Chinahat where he will meet the women of Anganbari and midday meal cooks. Rahul is likely to hold a chupal with them before he would further proceed by road to Dewa where he will offer a `chadar’ and seek blessings.
Spokesman of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee, Virendra Madan further said that from Dewa, Rahul Gandhi would hold a `road show’ and he will pass through Barabanki city to reach Safedabad area of the district. On way, Rahul will stop in villages for direct interaction with the people as well as Party leaders and motivate them to work for victory of the Congress. All along the route from Amauasi till Safedabad, huge gates would be erected and the entire route will be decorated to give a warm welcome to Rahul by the Party leaders. Rahul will also stop at several places to except greetings of the public.
After a night stay, the Congress vice-president will reach Varanasi and will visit Kashi Vishwanath temple for darshan of Baba Vishwanath and seek blessings of the deity. He will later also meet the Rickshaw pullers in the temple town and hold a chaupal. later in the day he will address a `Sadbhavna youth rally’ in Mirzapur before returning to New Delhi. This would be the first time that
Rahul Gandhi will venture out of Amethi, his lok Sabha constituency, in UP during which he will campaign for the Party. local MP from Barabanki, Pl Puniya, state president, Nirmal Khatri would also accompany Rahul during the tour. Meanwhile, lucknow Congress leaders held at meeting at the state party headquarters to chalk out the programme of Rahul Gandhi and has decided to welcome the leader at different places in the state capital. Interestingly, the Party decided to push all it’s strength to make Rahul’s first show a great success particularly by ensuring a good crowd.