Congress party president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi has flagged off a three-day bus yatra named “27 Saal UP Behaal” from the party headquarters on Saturday aiming at the Uttar Pradesh elections. Along with senior leaders, its general secretary in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad, the newly-appointed Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Raj Babbar and the party's chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit will travel across the state in the bus to deliver their electoral message.
“This time people in Uttar Pradesh want development. They see the BJP, BSP and the Samajwadi Party as parties which create a divide. We want clean politics in Uttar Pradesh and this is our main agenda,” Azad said. "The Congress Party respects and represents all religions and this is our message to the people of Uttar Pradesh," he added.
“The aim is to highlight the failures and misgovernance by the successive governments of Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and BJP in UP for last 27 years,” UP Congress campaign committee chairperson Sanjay Singh said.
“The yatra will propagate the message to the people of Uttar Pradesh on the failures and misgovernance by successive governments of Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and BJP in Uttar Pradesh for the last 27 years,” he said, adding that “we will campaign in such a way that we reach out to every voter at least three or four times”.
Singh said that the yatra will be followed by a meeting of the state unit, which will be chaired by Rahul, in Lucknow on July 29. The Congress president will participate in a road show in Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on August 2.
"The Congress Party was there in power at the Centre for 60 years. During that time, they deteriorated the condition of our country. From other parties, they are now asking for the amount of work done. But they never give an account of what they did in the 60 years when they were in power," mocking at the Congress bus yatra, Samajwadi Party spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said.
"It was there in power in Uttar Pradesh for most of the time except for 27 years. No development took place during their regime in the state and they are now seeking an explanation from the other parties. All these tricks of the Congress will not work and no matter how many rallies they conduct, the people of Uttar Pradesh are not going to fall in their trap as they know the reality," he added.
By Premji
