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Rahul on road to crack UP Dalit base OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Rahul Gandhi New Delhi, March 19: Having shattered Mayavati’s exceptional axis with Brahmins, the Congress has now drawn up an ambitious plan to make inroads into her Dalit vote bank. The plan will be unveiled on April 14, the birth anniversary of Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar. That day, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will flag off 10 yatras which will cover the entire Uttar Pradesh and carry the message of the state’s abysmal decline under different regimes that the party believes didn’t focus on development. The yatras will also dwell on the welfare programmes of the UPA and stress that the Centre’s ruling coalition is primarily driven by inclusive politics. Rahul will reach Ambedkarnagar, near Faizabad, on April 14 to flag off the yatras, each of which will cover 40 Assembly constituencies and culminate on November 10 in Allahabad, where Congress president Sonia Gandhi will be present. The Congress is also keen to rekindle the glory of the freedom movement through the yatras. A programme has been lined up at Allahabad’s Anand Bhavan, the Gandhis’ ancestral home. AICC general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh, Digvijay Singh, and secretary Avinash Pandey will coordinate the yatras, to be in two phases — first from April 14 to May 31 and the second from September 15 to November 10. Each yatra will have a chief co-ordinator who, in turn, will appoint co-ordinators for each Assembly constituency. Senior leaders, central ministers and even chief ministers of Congress-ruled states will be invited to address the meetings. The 10 chief co-ordinators are Jagdambika Pal, P.L. Puniya, Zafar Ali Naqvi, Shekhar Bahuguna, Rajeshpati Tripathi, Rajendra Sharma, Pradeep Mathur, Ranjit Singh Judeo, Bhola Pandey and Praveen Aaron. ------------------------------------ ---- INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to [email protected], OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to [email protected] TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to [email protected] OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
