Rahul Gandhi May Campaign In Coastal Odisha By April-End; Madhu Babu Jayanti Tentative Date

Bhubaneswar: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi is likely to campaign in coastal constituency in Odisha in the last week of April.

He may visit the birthplace of Madhusudan Das, an architect of modern Odisha, near Satyabhamapur in Cuttack district on April 28, coinciding with his birth anniversary, former Union minister Bhakta Charan Das, the campaign committee chairman of the party, said.

“The details of his visit to the state will be finalised soon,” he added.

Das further said former president Sonia Gandhi, general secretary Priyanka Gandhi, Chief Minister of Telangana Revanth Reddy and Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will also campaign for party candidates in Odisha.

The first meeting of the campaign committee also decided to concentrate on door-to-door campaign with five guarantees of the AICC and 10 guarantees for the people announced by the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC). “If the guarantees announced by the party reaches the people correctly, it will help the Congress come back to power in the state,” Das said.

He added that Congress will soon formally launch the Srikshetra Dham Puri campaign.