ALLAHABAD: Samajwadi Party’s youth wing on Monday began a six-day cycle rally to mobilise public against the proposed rally of Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi at Phulpur near here on November 14.
Led by district president Ravindra Yadav, scores of SP youth workers, riding bicycles, embarked upon the rally from the historic Anand Bhawan — the ancestral house of Nehru- Gandhi family which has been converted into a museum.
“We will travel to all parts of the city as well as the outskirts and warn the people against falling into the trap of Congress and Rahul Gandhi. The man, who is looked upon by his party as the future PM of the country, has been unabashedly and repeatedly making false promises to the people of Uttar Pradesh,” Yadav said.
The Congress, which had taken everyone by surprise in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls by winning more than 20 seats in UP, has upped the ante for the forthcoming assembly elections in the state where it is aiming for a revival.
The party’s standing in UP had been on the decline ever since it lost power in the state in the late 1980s. In the 2007 assembly polls, Congress registered less than 10 per cent of the total number of seats in the 403-strong Vidhan Sabha.
On November 14, coinciding with the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, Congress is likely to kick off its ambitious revival plan from Phulpur, a tehsil situated 40 km from here. Phulpur has been chosen as the Lok Sabha constituency named after the tehsil used to be represented by Nehru himself. The rally of the Congress General Secretary is expected to strike an emotional chord with the people of the state.
Rahul will also flag off a series of mass-contact yatras on the occasion which will mark the commencement of the Congress’ campaign for the elections due early next year. (PTI)