Rahul Gandhi will take a break from India Jodi Yatra for Himachal campaign.
Shimla:
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will visit Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday to campaign for the assembly elections to be held on Saturday.
Sources said Mr Gandhi will skip the Congress’ Bharat Jodi Yatra (United India March) for a day to campaign in the hill state.
Mr Gandhi is facing criticism that he is not campaigning for the party even in Gujarat, where elections are to be held in two phases on December 1 and 5.
The Bharat Jodi Yatra, which was in Telangana yesterday and started from Kanyakumari, will enter Maharashtra today and reach Nanded district at 9 pm on its 61st day.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already campaigned for the BJP in this hill state. Mr. Gandhi’s party is faced with an uphill task, given its performance in state elections and by-elections in recent times.
However, both the BJP and the Congress are accusing each other of trying to hide the infighting in Himachal.
Congress has not announced the chief ministerial candidate in Himachal. The party’s state observer Bhupesh Baghel said they are contesting the elections under “collective leadership”.
PM Modi, at a rally in Himachal yesterday, took a dig at the Congress that it was a party steeped in infighting and factionalism, and could never provide stability and development in the hill state.