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Rahul Gandhi to start campaign in poll-bound Meghalaya on Jan 30

Rahul Gandhi to start campaign in poll-bound Meghalaya on Jan 30

| | 26 Jan 2018, 05:18 pm

Guwahati, Jan 26 (IBNS) : Congress president Rahul Gandhi will start election campaign in the poll-bound Meghalay when he visits the state on January 30.
 

He will take part in three meetings with the party workers at Tura, Jowai and Shillong.
MP and working president of Meghalaya Congress Vincent Pala said  Gandhi will arrive at Guwahati airport and then fly to Tura at around 11-30 am on January 30, where he to take part  in the first meeting.

"The party president will also visit Jowai and the state capital the next day. He will spend the night at Shillong before going back to Delhi on February 1," Vincent Pala said.
Assembly polls in Meghalaya is scheduled on February 27.

The Congress MP said Gandhi will not address any public rally during his visit to the state.

Congress is faced a major set back earlier this month when  its five legislators  resigned from the assembly and joined National People's Party (NPP).

Two other Congress legislators also moved to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and newly floated People's Democratic Front (PDF).


(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
 

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