New Delhi: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will be in Hyderabad on November 22 to campaign for the upcoming state assembly elections. Soon after Congress president Rahul Gandhi, too, will be in the state from November 22 onwards to campaign travelling across the state to over 10 venues.
The Telangana unit of the Congress party, who are still looking for a venue for the Sonia Gandhi rally, is pulling out all the stops for the party bigwigs. Sources in the party said that the stat unit is toying with the idea of propping up huge LEDs across assembly segments to relay Sonia’s speech.
“The idea is that we hold Facebook lives and other interactive sessions, as well as meeting with local leaders in over 119 assemblies. Sonia ji’s speech will be relayed to them through the LEDs,” said the party person, adding that the party’s state unit has been working on a list of programmes to welcome Sonia.
Sonia is likely to speak between 5 and 6pm on November 22, while the LEDs will relay the speech an hour later. Simultaneous meetings will be held across the 119 segments, after which Gandhi’s speech will be aired in the meetings. Gandhi’s campaign will come just days after the final deadline of withdrawal of nominations.
While the UPA chairperson will be in Telangana only once, her son Rahul Gandhi is likely to be travelling in the state, at the same time when he will be carrying out campaigns in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan.
Congress sources said that Gandhi will be travelling extensively inside Telangana, and state leaders thought it best to have him speak in over ten venues. Most of these venues, which are currently being decided, will cover all the ten old districts in the state.
