Congress president Rahul Gandhi to begin three-day visit to Amethi, Raebareli today
India | April 16, 2018 11:06 ISTThe Congress president represents Amethi in Lok Sabha while his mother Sonia Gandhi is Lok Sabha MP from Raebareli.
The Congress president represents Amethi in Lok Sabha while his mother Sonia Gandhi is Lok Sabha MP from Raebareli.
BJP spokesperson Anil Baluni said Rahul Gandhi should not worry about Modi and should rather be concerned about his and Sonia Gandhi's electoral fate in 2019.
Workers of both parties clashed reportedly after BJP supporters protested with banners and placards against the Congress president.
NTPC has also announced a financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the dead. The Prime Minister's Relief Fund will also give Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi visited Raebareli today to meet the victims of an explosion in a boiler at NTPC's Unchahar plant where at least 30 people have been killed.
The NTPC plant, which started generating power in 1988, has five power generating units of 210 MW each.
On June 26, five people were lynched to death by the residents of UP’s Apta village when they tried to escape after setting the house of the village pradhan on fire, police said
Six out of 10 assembly seats in Amethi and Rae Bareli parliamentary constituencies -- long considered Congress strongholds -- have gone to the BJP while two went to the Samajwadi Party, leaving the grand old party gasping with just two.
Congress and Samajwadi Party are haggling over seats in Rae Bareli and Amethi, the parliamentary turf of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul respectively.
Akhilesh Singh has won the Raebareli Sadar Assembly constituency since 1993, once as an independent and once as a Peace Party candidate, but now his daughter Aditi will contest from the seat.
Congress party clarified that Priyanka Gandhi will only campaign in Raebareli and Amethi districts of the state during UP Assembly elections.
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