In a bid to give a fillip to Congress' efforts for a political revival in Uttar Pradesh, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi will flag off a yatra in which it aims to "expose" the failures of the Mayawati
government.
The Congress' yatra begins in the key state of the Hindi heartland on April 14.
Party leaders said the yatra aims at exposing the anti-Dalit policies of the Mayawati government and projecting achievements of the UPA.
As the "Mission 2012" sets rolling in the state where the Congress is on a revival mode, the party has planned 10 marches by party workers in every assembly segment to give the message loud and clear that it would be a key contender in the assembly elections two years later.
While the Amethi MP would flag off the yatra, party president Sonia Gandhi will address the rally on the concluding day at Allahabad on November 10. The date is significant as the first meeting of the Congress Working Committee was held at Anand Bhawan here in 1910.
Giving details, AICC general secretary in-charge of UP, Digvijay Singh said, "Rahul Gandhi will flag off the yatra on April 14 at Ambedkar Nagar".
Interestingly, April 14 happens to be the birth anniversary of Dalit icon B R Ambedkar and the Congress, which had won 22 seats in the Lok Sabha elections from UP is aggressively trying to woo them from the BSP.
Singh said the first phase of the yatra would begin on April 14 and end on May 31 andthe second phase will begin after the monsoons from September 15 and conclude on November 10.
"The theme would be 125 years of Congress and the progress and achievements of the UPA government," the AICC general secretary said.
He said the party leaders would use the yatra to tell the people of UP how Mayawati had become "daulat ki beti and not a Dalit ki beti" (daughter of wealth, not Dalit).
"We are compiling the list of assets she acquired after coming into politics. This kind of growth is unheard of. We will be tracking her assets from the beginning and bring it to the notice of the people of the state," the Congress leader said.
Singh also informed that Rahul Gandhi will be visiting Shibli National College in Azamgar to interact with the students there and see the museum which houses archives, including letters exchangedbetween leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and the principals of the college.
"He (Rahul Gandhi) will be visiting there in the next academic session. The date has not yet been finalised but he will go there," he said.
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