Rahul on road to crack UP Dalit base
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi, March 19: Having shattered Mayavati's exceptional axis with
Brahmins, the Congress has now drawn up an ambitious plan to make
inroads into her Dalit vote bank. The plan will be unveiled on April
14, the birth anniversary of Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar.
That day, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will flag off 10
yatras which will cover the entire Uttar Pradesh and carry the message
of the state's abysmal decline under different regimes that the party
believes didn't focus on development.
The yatras will also dwell on the welfare programmes of the UPA and
stress that the Centre's ruling coalition is primarily driven by
inclusive politics.
Rahul will reach Ambedkarnagar, near Faizabad, on April 14 to flag off
the yatras, each of which will cover 40 Assembly constituencies and
culminate on November 10 in Allahabad, where Congress president Sonia
Gandhi will be present. The Congress is also keen to rekindle the
glory of the freedom movement through the yatras. A programme has been
lined up at Allahabad's Anand Bhavan, the Gandhis' ancestral home.
AICC general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh, Digvijay Singh, and
secretary Avinash Pandey will coordinate the yatras, to be in two
phases — first from April 14 to May 31 and the second from September
15 to November 10.
Each yatra will have a chief co-ordinator who, in turn, will appoint
co-ordinators for each Assembly constituency. Senior leaders, central
ministers and even chief ministers of Congress-ruled states will be
invited to address the meetings.
The 10 chief co-ordinators are Jagdambika Pal, P.L. Puniya, Zafar Ali
Naqvi, Shekhar Bahuguna, Rajeshpati Tripathi, Rajendra Sharma, Pradeep
Mathur, Ranjit Singh Judeo, Bhola Pandey and Praveen Aaron.
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