Gujarat LIVE: Rahul does his version of 'mann ki baat' in Valsad

Valsad/ South Gujarat: Congress President Rahul Gandhi has reached Gujarat to do his version of mann ki baat, on Thursday, after addressing a rally in Ajmer, Rajasthan.

During the election campaign in Gujarat’s Valsad, the Congress leader said, “The Prime Minister keeps telling his mann ki baat, however, the Congress is here to listen to your (the public’s) mann ki baat. You are the master, you have to order, we are here to fulfil your demands.”

Highlights:

-‘Congress is here to listen to public’s mann ki baat’: Rahul Gandhi

-Congress has decided to bring guaranteed income concept in India: Rahul

-“Congress has been planning a historic step for about three to four months now, we have decided to bring guaranteed income concept in India": Rahul

-‘Will replace ‘Gabbar Singh Tax’ with real GST if voted to power’: Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat

“If Congress comes to power, we will replace ‘Gabbar Singh Tax’ with real GST.”: Rahul

-Theirs is not Bharatmala project, it’s Bharat mara project: Rahul

-The Narendra Modi government is not bringing land acquisition bill drafted by the Congress, which took care of concerns of farmers and tribals. Their Bharatmala project is actually Bharatmara, it’s killing Bharat”: Rahul

-‘Farmers ask PM to waive off loans, they refuse’: Rahul

-“Farmers ask PM to waive off loan, to which they refused saying that our policy isn’t like that.”: Rahul

-“The Congress gave farm loan waiver within 10 days of coming into power in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhatishgarh.”: Rahul

-Rahul Gandhi reaches Gujarat to address a rally.

Congress popularity in this area is such as many remote villages in this region recognize only the Congress' hand symbol and remember only former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Bharatiya Janata Party, however, a day ahead of congress campaign moved in Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis from neighbouring Maharashtra to Dharampur to galvanise over 4,000 party workers at a 'cluster meeting' of the party's rank and file in presence of state chief Jitu Vaghani.

Although,Fadnavis' Dharampur visit was announced by the party only on Tuesday, BJP Gujarat General Secretary Bharatsinh Parmar calimed that their meeting was fixed much before than the Congress rally.

During 2017 Assembly polls, Gandhi had held many rallies across the length and breadth of the state, since then it is his first visit there.

While the BJP returned to power in the state in 2017 by winning 99 seats in the 182-member Assembly, the Congress’s graph also jumped from 60 to 77.

The party is also likely to organise its working committee meet, there, to boost its cadre before the Lok Sabha elections, a party source said.

The Congress, however, had drawn a blank in Gujarat in 2014 Lok Sabha elections when the BJP had won all 26 seats but secured 11 seats in the state in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls.

This time Congress party is all set to start its much ambitious campanign from Lal Dungri and the state unit, meanwhile, has galvanised its 75 legislators to ensure a big show.