Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat higlights: Shameful to write ‘Made in China’ on Sardar Patel statue, says Congress V-P

Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat LIVE updates: The Congress vice-president started his three-day roadshow on Monday. Today he is scheduled hold meetings with party workers and address a kisan sabha.

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: September 26, 2017 7:29 pm
rahul gandhi, rahul gandhi gujarat visit, gujarat elections, gujarat congress, saurashtra region Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat: Rahul Gandhi while interacting with locals in Gujarat on Day-1 of his visit (Source: AICC Communication Dept)

Continuing his campaign in poll-bound Gujarat, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi met traders and businessmen in Rajkot on Tuesday, the second day of his visit. He also held meetings with party workers and addressed a kisan sabha while on his way to towns such as Dhrol and Tankara by road.

Gandhi began his three-day roadshow on Monday by offering prayers at Dwarkadhish temple in Dwarka and then addressed party workers and villagers in Bhatia village in Jamnagar district. In a string of villages that he visited in Saurashtra region, the Congress leader interacted with locals on issues like corruption, unemployment, education and development. Targeting the PM Modi-led NDA government on demonetisation and GST, he said, “They have no space in heart for the weak and poor sections of the society… but they open all the doors for the rich people of the society.”

BJP meanwhile, called Rahul Gandhi’s Gujarat visit “dramatic and laughable”, saying that the campaign will boomerang on the Congress. “It will only benefit the BJP,” state BJP spokesperson Bharat Pandya said in a release.

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Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat highlights:

5.30 pm: Rahul Gandhi met dairy farmers of Pipaliyaraj.

5.15 pm: Rahul Gandhi is addressing villagers in Pipaliyaraj village of Wankaner taluka in Morbi district.

4.15 pm: Rahul Gandhi also said dairy farmers are not getting higher prices for milk, claiming that government cares only for big businesses.

4.10 pm: Here are some glimpses from second day of Rahul Gandhi’s three-day tour of poll-bound Gujarat. (Picture credit: AICC)

3.55 pm: If the Congress party forms the government in the upcoming polls, it will work for the interest of farmers, workers, and weaker sections of the society: Rahul Gandhi in Tankara.

3.00 pm: People with caps of Patidar quota stir caps in attendance in big numbers at Rahul Gandhi’s rally in Tankara.

2:29 pm: The development that has gone mad needs to be brought back on track, Rahul Gandhi said.

2:10 pm: Gandhi, taking to Twitter reiterated that Gujarat cannot be run by a remote control, but by its farmers, small businessman and workers.

1:27 pm: The Modi government hit Patidars with bullets, but Congress wishes to carry everyone ahead with love and feelings of fraternity, Rahul Gandhi said in Gujarat.

12:40 pm: ‘Made in China’ will be written on statue of Sardar Patel (to be installed at Narmada dam). This is a matter of shame, Rahul Gandhi says in Dhrol. The statue is being cast in China, he adds.

12:30 pm: “People are fed up with 22 year reign of BJP. It’s time to take revenge of atrocities committed against Patidars,” Bharat Solanki tells gathering in Patidar-dominated Dhrol town of Jamnagar.

12:03 pm: These days Gujarat’s government is run by a remote control. It is run by Delhi, says Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat, reports ANI.

rahul gandhi, rahul gandhi gujarat visit, gujarat elections, gujarat congress, saurashtra region Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat Live updates: Rahul Gandhi surrounded by locals and supporters. (Source: AICC Communication Dept)

11:32 am: Rahul Gandhi’s convoy has left Jamnagar city

11:29 am: Congress vice-president also met with trader community representatives in Jamnagar who shared their concerns with him.

Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat Live updates: Rahul Gandhi is greeted by villagers at Khimrana village on outskirts of Jamnagar. (Express photo by Gopal Kateshiya)

11:01 am: Rahul Gandhi in an address to people says, “The elections are coming. The government of Gujarat should run from Gujarat and not from Delhi.”

10:46 am: Also called as Navsarajan Yatra, the local leaders hope that Gandhi’s stay in the region for the first time, will boost the spirits of the party workers ahead of the elections slated to be held later this year.

rahul gandhi, rahul gandhi gujarat visit, gujarat elections, gujarat congress, saurashtra region Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat Live updates: Rahul Gandhi leaves Jamnagar Circuit House. He will travel to Rajkot on the second day of his roadshow in Gujarat (Express photo by Gopal Kateshiya)

9:58 am: Senior Gujarat Congress leader Siddharth Patel claims that negotiation between Gujarat government and Patidars scheduled today will fail as the government doesn’t intend to solve the issue of quota demand made by the Patidars.

9:56 am: Congress party national spokesman Shaktisinh Gohil, taking a jibe at PM Modi over Man Ki Baat said that communication has to be two-way and that’s why Rahul Gandhi is touring Saurashtra and listening to people of villages.

9:51 am:

9:30 am: While talking to the media, Solanki said that he saw an undercurrent against BJP on the first day of Rahul Gandhi’s campaign in the state. Gandhi, in his address on Monday, had also mentioned that people regretted voting for BJP. “There is a strong undercurrent in favour of Congress in Gujarat. People want change and Congress will definitely come to power this time,” Rahul Gandhi had said.

Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat Live updates: Gujarat Congress Chief Bharat Solanki talks to media, at Circuit House, in Jamnagar (Express photo by Gopal Kateshiya)

9:16 am: 

Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat Live updates: Gujarat Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi talks to media, at Circuit House, in Jamnagar (Express photo by Gopal Kateshiya)

9:16 am: On the second  day of his visit to Gujarat, Gandhi will be touring Assembly seats spread in Jamnagar, Rajkot and Morbi districts. Preparations have begun to welcome Congress vice-president in  Padhari town of Rajkot district.

9 am: Gandhi is expected to shortly meet party workers and supporters at Rampur Patia in Jamnagar district.

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