To accomplice Mission-2017, Uttar Pradesh Congress will take second leg of their ``27 Saal-UP Behal’, Yatra. The Yatra having two separate groups will be flag-off here from lucknow on coming Sunday. Interestingly, this leg will last till Oct 9 in which all the remaining 66 districts of the State will be covered.
Giving above details here on Wednesday afternoon, Satyadeo Tripathi, chairman of UPCC media cell said that AICC general secretary and UP incharge, Gulam Nabi Azad will flag-off two separate yatras here from lucknow on coming Sunday. He said that one group will be led by Party’s chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit and campaign committee incharge Sanjay Singh while the other group will be led by UPCC president Raj Babbar and Cooperation Committee head Pramod Tewari. Besides Azad, other senior party leaders which included former ministers will also take participate in this yatras from time to time and would expose the non-performance of non-Congress government which ruled the State during the last 27-years.
Tripathi further said that the first Yarta will start from lucknow on coming Sunday and will pass through Barabanki, Baharaich and come back to lucknow. On August 26 it will start from Gorakhpur, and passing through Kushinagar, Maharajganj it will reach back to Gorakhpur on the next day. On August 30, the yatra will again start from lucknow and passing through Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh, Kaushambhi, it will reach Allahabad. On September 3, it will start from Varanasi, and passing through Azamgarh, Ambedkarnagar, Jaunpur it will reach back to Varanasi on September 5. It will again leave Varanasi on September 7 and this time will proceed through Santravidasnagar, Mirjapur, Sonebhadra, and reach back Varanasi on next day. On September 10, it will leave lucknow and passing through Sitapur, lakhimpur Kheri, it will reach back lucknow. On September 15, it will start from New Delhi, and will pass through Bagpat, Muzaffarnagar and reach back Delhi on next day.
On September 18, the Yatra will again leave Delhi and pass through Shamli, Saharanpur and will reach back Delhi on next day. Again from Delhi, the yatra will leave on September 22 and passing through Aligarh, Kansganj, will reach Delhi to again leave for Sambhal, Badaun on September 26. On September 30, the yatra will begin from Agra and pass through Mainpuri and Ferojabad. On October 4, the yatra will leave lucknow and passing through Auraiya, Etawah, will reach back lucknow on next day. On October 9, it will leave for Philibhit and conclude.
Tripathi said that similarly during the above period from August 21 till October 9, the second group of the Yatra will cover Faizabad, Sultanpur, Amethi, Sant Kabirnagar, Basti, Siddharthnagar, Deoria, Balia, Mau, Gazipur, Chandauli, Shrawasti, Balrampur, Gonda, Allahabad, Fatehpur, Banda, Unnao, Kanpur Dehat, Bulundshahr, Meerut, Bijnore, Hathras, Etah, Farukabad, Mathra, lalitpur, Hamirpur, Jhansi, and Mahoba disrticts.