Rahul Gandhi may spend night in Dalit home again
December 21st, 2009 - 2:03 pm ICT by IANS
Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 21 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is likely to spend yet another night in a Dalit’s home in Jhansi district, party sources said Monday.
The Congress MP, who is scheduled to arrive here later Monday by a chartered plane, will go straight to Ghisauli village, barely 10 km from this city in the backward Bundelkhand region, the sources said.
He is to attend a programme organised by a local NGO engaged in welfare and economic upliftment of Dalits in the area.
Details of his programme were being kept secret “for security reasons”, the source added. However, it is learnt that he would spend the night in a Dalit home in a particular village of the area.
Rahul’s visit is significant as it is his first after he pushed a special development package of Rs.7,000 crore for the Bundelkhand region.
But what is equally significant is that the trip coincides with the commencement of the first major movement for the long-pending demand for statehood to Bundelkhand.
Bundelkhand Mukti Morcha chief Raja Bundela had Dec 16 launched a 300-km march to press for the people’s demand for an independent state of Bundelkhand.
- Rahul gives media and politicians a slip again (Lead) - Dec 21, 2009
- Rahul visits Jhansi Cantt before flying off to Amethi - Dec 22, 2009
- Bundelkhand group to launch agitation for statehood - Dec 14, 2009
- Rahul Gandhi faces protests in Uttar Pradesh - Jan 11, 2011
- Rahul to tour Bundelkhand Jan 17-20 - Jan 13, 2012
- Rahul assures Bundelkhand people of central package - Dec 08, 2011
- Rahul to tour Uttar Pradesh - Jan 08, 2011
- Rahul's Bundelkhand package hits the bumpy road - Dec 11, 2011
- Rahul Gandhi on another 'secret' trip to Uttar Pradesh - Dec 20, 2009
- Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh not implementing Bundelkhand package: Minister - Jan 04, 2011
- Telangana reverberates in Uttar Pradesh - Dec 11, 2009
- Mayawati neglecting Bundelkhand: PM, Rahul - May 01, 2011
- Bundelkhand protesters disrupt rail traffic, vandalise station - Dec 15, 2009
- Blood signature campaign for Bundelkhand - Dec 17, 2009
- Mayawati demands creation of Bundelkhand, Paschim Uttar Pradesh - Dec 11, 2009
Tags: chartered plane, commencement, congress, crore, dalits, economic upliftment, general secretary, independent state, mp, ngo, party sources, rahul gandhi, raja bundela, security reasons, statehood, uttar pradesh, welfare