Amid the mega foundation laying ceremony of Ganga Expressway in Shahjahanpur, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday arrived at his lost bastion Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, along with his sister and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to lead a 6-km-long padyatra (foot march) ahead of the 2022 UP elections.
The Wayanad MP is visiting Amethi after nearly two and a half years and for the first time since he lost the battalion in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The brother-sister duo arrived in Lucknow on Saturday morning and are expected to reach Amethi by road. State Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu will also join them for the padyatra from Ramlila ground in Jagdishpur to Harimau. As many as 50,000 Congress workers are expected to arrive for the foot march.
The padyatra is a part of the Congress’s nationwide campaign 'Jan Jagran Abhiyan' launched on November 14 to expose the alleged mismanagement of the economy by the Centre. Additionally, Rahul Gandhi will also hold 'chaupals' in rural areas.
Rahul had represented Amethi, a stronghold of the Nehru-Gandhi family, for 15 years in Lok Sabha. However, in 2019, he was defeated in Amethi by the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Smriti Irani by 55,120 votes but won from Wayanad in Kerala.
Gandhi’s visit to Amethi comes on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur to lay the foundation stone for Ganga Expressway as part of the election campaign. Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is holding a rally in Raebareli.
{{/usCountry}}Gandhi’s visit to Amethi comes on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur to lay the foundation stone for Ganga Expressway as part of the election campaign. Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is holding a rally in Raebareli.
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