Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will start the party’s J&K election campaign on Wednesday as he is scheduled to address two election rallies in the union territory.
Rahul Gandhi will address one rally each in Jammu and Kashmir for the first phase of the 3-phased Assembly elections.
Congress sources said that a special plane carrying Rahul Gandhi will land at Jammu airport at 10 a.m.
“From the airport, Rahul Gandhi will take a helicopter for Sangaldan in Ramban district where he will address a Congress rally in support of the party candidate, Vikar Rasool Wani around 11 a.m.
Sangaldan, part of the Banihal Assembly constituency in the Ramban district of Jammu division, is where Congress and the National Conference (NC) have fielded candidates. Party general secretary Bharatsinh Solanki and state Congress president Tariq Hameed Karra will accompany Rahul Gandhi during the daylong campaign.
Rahul Gandhi will then move to the Dooru Assembly constituency in the Anantnag district of Kashmir. Congress star campaigners, including Sonia Gandhiji, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, will also campaign for the party candidates.
Three former JKPCC presidents, Vikar Rasool Wani, G.A.Mir, and Peerzada Sayeed, are fighting elections in the first phase of J&K elections. Congress and NC have announced a pre-poll alliance, with NC fighting on 52 seats and Congress on 31 seats. Both parties will field candidates in five seats in the Jammu division and Sopore in the Kashmir division in a friendly contest.
J&K has 90 Assembly seats, 47 in Kashmir and 43 in Jammu. Out of these, nine seats are reserved for ST seats and seven are reserved for SC.
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Source: NDTV
