LUCKNOW: Team Akhilesh-Rahul will not hold a road show after all in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency Varanasi as Uttar Pradesh votes in the first phase of crucial assembly elections tomorrow. The five-hour rally featuring Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and partner Rahul Gandhi of the Congress had been designed to draw attention to the young leaders as another part of the state voted. A strategy that was first tested by PM Modi in the national election of 2014.
The plan was to divert attention with the hype around a big joint rally in the PM's constituency in eastern UP, while western UP, where the BJP is seen as strong, voted.The Congress has said that tomorrow's road show was cancelled because the administration withdrew permission earlier granted, citing celebrations in the area of the birth anniversary of a saint Guru Ravidas. The road show would be held another day, the party said.
Varanasi's District Magistrate Yogeshwar Ram Mishra however told NDTV that officials had been informed of "no such programme for February 11," and sources said a clash of dates scuttled the road show. The Congress, before fixing the date had apparently failed to check with Akhilesh Yadav, who had already committed the date to campaigning in other parts of the states.
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