Rahul Gandhi to hit two-day campaign trail for Gujarat Assembly elections today

AHMEDABAD: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will kick-start his two-day visit to the poll-bound Gujarat on Friday.

He will hit the campaign trail by first visiting the birthplace of 'Father of the Nation' Mahatma Gandhi. This would be Gandhi scion's fifth visit after Assembly polls were announced in the Gujarat next month.

After landing at the Porbandar airport Friday morning, Gandhi would start his tour by meeting local fishermen to understand their problems, a release by the party said.

Apart from interacting with Dalits in Sanand, Gandhi would interact with fishermen, doctors, teachers and villagers on his route covering Porbandar, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Mahisagar and Dahod district during his two-day visit.

Thereafter, he will visit Ahmedabad's Dalit Shakti Kendra where he will be presented a mammoth Indian flag made by Dalit workers which activists say the Chief Minister's Office and other officials refused to accept.

He will then arrive here to take part in two separate interactive sessions, one with doctors and medical professionals and another with lecturers and primary school teachers.

He will wrap up the day's programme by addressing a public gathering at Bhakti ground in the Patidar-dominated area of Nikol, Naroda.

Rahul Gandhi’s travel programme in Gujarat on November 24, 2017:

10:45 hrs : Visit to the Birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi : Kirti Mandir, Porbandar

11:15 hrs : Meeting with Fishermen at Fishing Harbour Ground, Porbandar

14:30 hrs : Dalit Swabhiman Sabha at Dalit Shakti Kendra, Nani Devtati, Sanand - Bavla Road, Ahmedabad

16:15 hrs : Interaction with Representatives from the Public Health Sector at Thakorebhai Desai Hall, Law Garden, Ahmedabad 

17:30 hrs : Interaction with Representatives from the Teaching Community at Shahid Veer Mangal Pandey Hall, Ahmedabad

19:30 hrs:  Public Meeting at Open Ground, Opposite Kunj Mall, Nikol, Ahmedabad 

On Saturday, he would visit various villages and towns on his journey covering Gandhinagar, Arvalli, Mahisagar and Dahod districts.

Voting for the two-phase polls are scheduled for December 9 and 14. The vote count will take place on December 18.

89 seats of the Saurashtra and South Gujarat region are going to polls in the first phase, while the remaining 93 seats in the central and northern regions would go to polls in the second phase.