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Gujarat polls: Rahul Gandhi to handle public rallies in Rajkot, Surat on Monday

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By PTI

RAJKOT: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will tackle two public rallies in Rajkot in addition to Mahuva in Surat in poll-bound Gujarat on November 21, a celebration chief mentioned on Saturday.

Gandhi is at the moment main the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, which is traversing Maharashtra and is poised to enter Madhya Pradesh on November 20.

The former Congress president shall be in Rajkot and Mahuva in south Gujarat to handle public rallies on November 21, Rajasthan MLA and Congress’s Gujarat in-charge Raghu Sharma informed reporters.

Speaking on the Yatra, he mentioned the nationwide march has lined 2,000 kilometres thus far and has been organised as per the choice taken on the ‘navsankalp shivir’ in Rajasthan’s Udaipur towards the “environment of fear, hatred and violence prevailing in the country”.

Incidentally, Gandhi shall be visiting Gujarat after two-and-half months.

He had addressed a rally of booth-level employees in Ahmedabad on September 5, earlier than transferring on to guide the Yatra that commenced from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7.

Gujarat will see two-phase Assembly polls on December 1 and 5, whereas votes shall be counted on December 8.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is in search of the seventh straight time period, is pitted towards Congress and Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party that has promised a slew of measures, or “guarantees” if it wins the polls.

The BJP received the 2017 polls for the 182-member Gujarat Assembly by a slim margin after successful 99 seats towards Congress’ improved tally of 77.
ALSO READ | PM Modi to handle rallies in poll-bound Gujarat for 2 days

RAJKOT: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will tackle two public rallies in Rajkot in addition to Mahuva in Surat in poll-bound Gujarat on November 21, a celebration chief mentioned on Saturday.

Gandhi is at the moment main the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, which is traversing Maharashtra and is poised to enter Madhya Pradesh on November 20.

The former Congress president shall be in Rajkot and Mahuva in south Gujarat to handle public rallies on November 21, Rajasthan MLA and Congress’s Gujarat in-charge Raghu Sharma informed reporters.

Speaking on the Yatra, he mentioned the nationwide march has lined 2,000 kilometres thus far and has been organised as per the choice taken on the ‘navsankalp shivir’ in Rajasthan’s Udaipur towards the “environment of fear, hatred and violence prevailing in the country”.

Incidentally, Gandhi shall be visiting Gujarat after two-and-half months.

He had addressed a rally of booth-level employees in Ahmedabad on September 5, earlier than transferring on to guide the Yatra that commenced from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7.

Gujarat will see two-phase Assembly polls on December 1 and 5, whereas votes shall be counted on December 8.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is in search of the seventh straight time period, is pitted towards Congress and Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party that has promised a slew of measures, or “guarantees” if it wins the polls.

The BJP received the 2017 polls for the 182-member Gujarat Assembly by a slim margin after successful 99 seats towards Congress’ improved tally of 77.ALSO READ | PM Modi to handle rallies in poll-bound Gujarat for 2 days