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Congress to rope in Rahul Gandhi for bus yatra
Congress president Rahul Gandhi will participate in the next phase of bus yatra which is likely to begin in the first week of August
​Hyderabad: Congress president Rahul Gandhi will participate in the next phase of bus yatra which is likely to begin in the first week of August.
Rahul Gandhi is likely to address a series of street corner meetings as part of the bus yatra in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts. The date and venue are likely to be finalised in the next few days. So far, in the last three phases of bus yatra, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N Uttam Kumar has covered 40 Assembly constituencies.
The bus yatra was halted in June in view of Ramzan. Having completed other programmes pertaining to strengthening of organisation, the party has reportedly decided to resume the yatra next month.
Meanwhile, Uttam Kumar Reddy, who was in Delhi to attend Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, held detailed interactions with AICC Telangana in-charge R C Khuntia on party's activities in Telangana. Later, Uttam and Khuntia had a review meeting with AICC secretaries N S Bose Raju, Saleem Ahmed and Srinivasan Krishnan who have been assigned the task of supervising party activities in Parliamentary constituencies.
He also had a detailed review meeting regarding the Shakti programme with AICC Data Analytics Head Praveen Chakravorthy who congratulated the TPCC chief on Telangana Congress entering the top 3 States with highest number of registrations. While Rajasthan has registered 3.5 lakh workers on Shakti App, Chhattisgarh got 95,000 registrations. With 58,000 registrations, Telangana is on the third position.
Addressing a press conference later at AICC headquarters in Delhi on Monday, Uttam Kumar Reddy said the party was planning to ensure early release of manifesto and early announcement of candidates. He said delay in release of party's manifesto and Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s lucrative promises were the main reasons which resulted in party's loss in 2014 elections. Therefore, he said the manifesto, both at the national and State levels, should be released early.
Uttam Kumar Reddy also informed that each of the three AICC Secretaries would be taking care of issues pertaining to six Parliamentary constituencies assigned to each of them till elections.
