TIL Desk/National/Delhi-Congress will formally launch its Uttar Pradesh assembly election campaign with the slogan ’27 saal, UP behaal’ today. Congress president Sonia Gandhi flagged off a bus yatra from the party office in Delhi in the presence of newly-appointed Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Raj Babbar, party’s CM candidate Sheila Dikshit and the AICC general secretary for UP, Ghulam Nabi Azad.
The party’s aims to highlight the 27 years of poor governance since it lost power in the 1989 state elections to the now-defunct Janata Dal. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, too, will join the campaign on July 29 in Lucknow where he will meet 50,000 party karyakartas (workers). Sonia, too, will undertake a road show in Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on August 2.
