Lok Sabha poll campaigns highlights: Rahul says Cong must form govt in UP

Both Congress and BJP are gearing up their election campaigns ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2019

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While thanking the people of Lucknow and party supporters for the support to the roadshow, Rahul slapped his oft-repeated jibe on Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘Chaukidaar chor hai’, which the Congress workers shouted thrice in unison. 

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Rahul Gandhi underlined Priyanka, Scindia and he himself would not rest until they dislodge the current BJP dispensations and install a Congress government of the poor, youth and farmers even as he likened UP to the heart of India.

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Addressing a roadside public meeting in the state capital en route to the party's state headquarters from Lucknow airport, Rahul Gandhi said while Lok Sabha polls were definitely on the radar, but the party was also eyeing victory in 2022 UP Assembly polls as well. "I have tasked Priyanka and Jyotiraditya Scindia ji (the former union minister has been made the in charge for Western UP constituencies in the run-up to general elections) with ending the injustice prevalent in the state for years... now we will play on front foot and not backfoot," Rahul Gandhi said. (Read more here)  

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Visuals from Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Jyotiraditya Scindia's roadshow in Lucknow

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Congress will play on front-foot in UP: Rahul Gandhi

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Modi, Adityanath, Governor Ram Naik serve food to children in Vrindavan

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Raj Babbar welcomes Priyanka Gandhi in Lucknow

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Robert Vadra extends wishes to Priyanka Gandhi

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Priyanka’s UP roadshow virtual launch of party campaign?

Congress is seeing Priyanka Gandhi’s roadshow as the virtual launch of party’s campaign in the state ahead of Lok Sabha elections