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Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will on Friday engage with fishermen, Dalits, and the public health and teaching communities in a series of meetings in poll-bound Gujarat.
“Congress VP Rahul Gandhi travels from Porbandar to Ahmedabad, where he will interact with members of the fishermen, Dalit, public health and teaching communities,” the Congress party tweeted.
Congress VP Rahul Gandhi travels from Porbandar to Ahmedabad, where he will interact with members of the fishermen, Dalit, public health and teaching communities. #Congress_સાથે_ગુજરાત pic.twitter.com/zvF3ihm6fr
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As per schedule, on the first day of his two-day visit starting Friday, the Gandhi scion will arrive at Mahatma Gandhi’s birthplace Porbandar and address a public rally, focussing on issues of the fishing community.
Thereafter, he will visit Ahmedabad’s Dalit Shakti Kendra where he will be presented a mammoth Indian flag made by Dalit workers which activists say the Chief Minister’s Office and other officials refused to accept.
He will interact with community representatives in Ahmedabad besides meeting doctors, nurses, paramedics and small scale pharmaceutical manufacturers.
In the evening, he will meet with the teaching community — university professors, primary teachers and ad hock teachers.
He will wrap up the day’s programme by addressing a public gathering at Bhakti ground in the Patidar-dominated area of Nikol, Naroda.
On day two, Gandhi will visit Dehgam in Gandhinagar district and then leave for Aravalli’s Bayad region for a corner meeting.
He will have another meeting in Lunawada in the newly-formed Mahisagar district and yet one more at Santrampur.
Gandhi will then reach Dahod district and address a gathering of Congress workers. More meetings have been planned in Dahod to be followed by a public meeting. He will leave Gujarat from Vadodara.
This will be Gandhi’s fifth visit after Assembly polls were announced in the state.
(With inputs from agencies)
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