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Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi’s Uttar Pradesh Maha Yatra will conclude in the national Capital on Thursday.
The Congress claimed the Maha Yatra was “historical” and had helped the Congress mobilise people in its favour ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled in February 2017.
Party spokesperson RPN Singh told reporters here that Gandhi travelled 3,438 kilometres — from Deoria in eastern UP — and took 26 days to reach Delhi. “He addressed more than 700 meetings and participated in 26 road shows in 141 constituencies,” Singh added.
The party also claimed Gandhi collected 75 lakh demand letters from UP’s farmers.
Gandhi is expected to submit the demand letters of farmers to the Centre on Thursday. He has been asking the Narendra Modi government at the Centre to be empathetic to the demands of farmers. “In the past, he rallied around various political parties to protest the Land Acquisition Ordinance of the Modi government. This time, the key demand is to waive farm loans like the UPA government did in 2008,” Singh added.
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