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UP poll campaign : Sheila Dikshit begins three-day bus tour for mass contact

UP poll campaign : Sheila Dikshit begins three-day bus tour for mass contact

| | 23 Jul 2016, 01:49 pm
New Delhi, July 23 (IBNS) : Sheila Dikshit, the Chief Ministerial candidate of the Congress for Uttar Pradesh elections, began a three-day bus tour to Kanpur on Saturday as her party launched the poll campaign, reports said.

The bus  was flagged off by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and deputy Rahul for a 600-km drive. 

Accompanying the 78-year-old  Dikhsit among others, are senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and  actor-turned-politician  Raj Babbar, who has been named the head of the party in Uttar Pradesh.

The bus journey has been taken up to build up mass contact with the people and hold interactions with party workers at different places.

Soon after flagging-off the bus yatra, Rahul Gandhi tweeted:

"Join team Congress as we kick off a 3day bus yatra to highlight failures of successive Govts in UP."

 
After a series of electoral debacles in several states, the Congress has now girded its loins for the prestigious battle for Uttar Pradesh, the biggest state in India, which once had been a Congress bastion. 
 

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