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Sonia comes calling at dusty Hamlet in UP
Siddharthnagar, Feb 11: The non-descriptive village of Masna Karaunda in this district today played host to Congress Pesident Sonia Gandhi when she made an imprompt stopover at the Hamlet.
Siddharthnagar, Feb 11: The non-descriptive village of Masna
Karaunda in this district today played host to Congress Pesident
Sonia Gandhi when she made an imprompt stopover at the Hamlet.
Wrapping up her three-day roadshow of Gorakhpur and Basti
divisions in Uttar Pradesh, Ms Gandhi decided to interact and
lend an ear to the problems of the people of the village which
she was passing through.
No sooner did she disembark from her vehicle with the SPG men
in tow, she was surrounded by awe-struck villagers who had lined
both sides of the road to catch a glimpse of Ms Gandhi. The Congress
supremo stayed for about 30 minutes at the village, the longest halt
of her entire tour.
The washerwoman narrated her tale of woes saying in the coming
days, she would lose her only mean of livelihood as she was being
forced to shift elsewhere.
Ms Gandhi gave her a patient hearing and assured all help to her even as she solicited the villagers' support for the party in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
Ms Gandhi gave her a patient hearing and assured all help to her even as she solicited the villagers' support for the party in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
On the last day of her tour, she visited Bansi, Dumariaganj and
Basti and addressed about a dozen public meetings. The Congress
campaign ended at Basti this afternoon.
Bureau Report