Congress will go it alone in UP elections

TIL Desk/National/Lucknow-Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday took everyone by surprise by asserting that his party was preparing itself to stage a come back by emerging as number one in the 2017 state assembly elections in UP.

Gandhi said the Congress will go it alone in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly election and will form an “alliance only with the people of the state”.

“We are contesting the election to get complete majority in the Assembly and have our own chief minister…You know what has happened in the last 27 years when different parties have only divided the state,” the Congress vice president said during an interactive session with party workers here.