Rahul Gandhi's Kolar visit postponed to April 9

NT Correspondent

Kolar

Former A ll India Congress Committee (AICC) president Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Kolar has been rescheduled from Wednesday, April 5 to April 9. AICC general secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal disclosed in a tweet, “Sh. @RahulGandhi will be in Kolar on 9th April and address the Jai Bharat Mega Rally there. On 11th April, he will visit Wayanad. He is the voice of the people, you can never silence him.

This voice will only get louder and stronger." This would have been his first visit to Karnataka after being disqualified as a Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad. Interestingly, he was suspended after he was sent to serve a two years term in jail in a defamation case over a speech he made in Kolar during the 2019 general elections campaign.

The Congress leaders' last visit to Karnataka was on March 20 in Belagavi where he announced the party’s Yuva Nid hi Yoja na, which promises a monthly allowance of Rs 3,000 for unemployed graduates and Rs1,500 a month to diploma holders between jobs. This was the fourth “guarantee” that Congress made.

The other promises made by the Congress include Gruha Jyoti Yojana which promises 200 units of electricity to every household, Gruha Lakshmi Yojane under which Rs 2,000 would be given every month to the “woman head of every household” and the latest Anna Bhagya scheme promises 10 kilograms of rice every month to Below Poverty Line (BPL) card holders.