New Delhi, Sep 14: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will kick off his Bihar Assembly Elections 2015 campaign on 19 September from Champaran. Rahul Gandhi will share stage with Bihar Chief Minister (CM) Nitish Kumar in the rally. According to the sources, RJD chief Lalu Prasad won’t attend the rally with the theme of “Samata and Samrasata” (equity and harmony), the anti-BJP alliance will be able drive home the message of social justice with greater force.
The JD(U)-RJD-Congress combine already has a “pro-development” face in Nitish Kumar to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s high-pitched campaign advocating Bihar’s development, party sources said. Congress plans to make the proposed rally at Ram Nagar in West Champaran district a “mega” affair after the alliance’s Swabhiman rally in Patna on August 30 which was attended by Sonia Gandhi, Lalu and Nitish. (ALSO READ: Rahul Gandhi: Naveen Patnaik ‘lacks focus’ on Odisha’s future)
Lalu has not been on best of terms with Rahul ever since the Congress vice president vetoed a UPA government?s ordinance to protect convicted lawmakers from disqualification in September 2013 which, according to the Opposition, was brought to help the RJD president, who was convicted in the fodder scam.
Gandhi at the September 19 rally, JD(U) general secretary K C Tyagi said, “Nitishji is attending the rally. Who will attend from RJD is for that party to decide but nobody has any issues with either Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi.” “Nobody has any objection to anybody attending the rally. The Champaram rally will prove that the grand alliance is intact and successful,” he said. (With PTI inputs)
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