New Delhi, Mar 15: Congress president Sonia Gandhi will roll her campaign bandwagon to Gujarat and Maharashtra from today. Extending her roadshows to western India after wooing voters in the north-east and the Hindi heartland. Gandhi will tour eight districts of Gujarat in this phase of her roadshow across the country, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Ambika Soni had announced this in a news conference on March 10.
The latest roadshows will begin tomorrow from the Dhanu tribal parliamentary consituency in Maharashtra before moving on to Dadar and Nager Haveli and Daman and Diu.
``The focus of the latest campaign by Gandhi is Gujarat where she will spend the greater part of her campaign,`` Soni said.
The Congress president will address rallies in Baroda, Bharuch, Mandvi, Balsar and Chhota Udaipur among the eight districts in her campaign itinerary for Gujarat.
On March 20-21, she will tour Chhattisgarh, which the Congress lost in the last assembly election. ``the tour will be specially in the tribal areas of the state,`` she said.
Bureau Report