Amarinder is Punjab CM candidate, 70% Punjab’s youth into drugs: Rahul Gandhi

Mangalore Today News Network

Jan 27, 2017: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is addressing a rally in Amritsar on Friday in his first visit to Punjab after the assembly elections were announced.

 

He is speaking at a rally in Amritsar’s Majitha, which is the assembly seat of cabinet minister Bikram Singh Majithia, the younger brother of Harsimrat Kaur Badal -- Union minister and wife of deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Punjab will go to the polls on February 4, and the results will be declared over a month later — on March 11. Election campaigning will conclude on February 2.

The campaign, aimed at launching a mega-offensive against the ruling Badal family, will also see him addressing rallies at Rampura Phul, Talwandi Sabo and Bathinda Urban on the first day. The Congress vice-president is on a three-day election tour of the state.

The highlight of Gandhi’s tour will be joint public rallies with state Congress head Captain Amarinder Singh and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu at Majitha, Jalalabad and Lambi.

The Congress vice-president is addressing this rally the same day as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AAP leader and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal are slated to speak at other places in the state.