Congress President Sonia Gandhi today launched her party’s campaign for the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election with a massive roadshow in Varanasi in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s turf.
She arrived to a rousing welcome in Varanasi on Tuesday, with party workers lining up on both sides of the road from the airport and raising slogans hailing her.
Dozens of mini trucks prominently displayed posters with ‘27 Saal, UP Behaal’ (27 years of UP’s distress) written on them. Placards carried by hundreds of workers also had the same slogan written on them.
Thousands of Congress supporters and workers took part in the roadshow from the Circuit House to Englishiya Line, a distance of about eight kilometres.
Besides the party’s chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit, AICC General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad, state party chief Raj Babbar and senior leaders Pramod Tiwari and Sanjay Singh accompanied Gandhi.
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