Sonia, Mayawati start campaign trail in UP today

Uttar Pradesh polls two leading ladies, Chief Minister Mayawati and Congress president Sonia Gandhi hitting the campaign trail today. Sonia will begin her campaign in Uttar Pradesh with rallies at Deoria and Gonda. Sonia’s rallies come just a day after the party released its election manifesto for Uttar Pradesh promising to develop the state’s neglected infrastructure, create more employment opportunities and provide reservation for the most backward sections of the society.

Rahul Gandhi, the Gandhi family scion, also resumes his campaign tomorrow. He will share the dais with Ajit Singh in Meerut tomorrow – the first joint rally of Congress and…

UP Elections : Congress will defeat BSP in 2012: Rahul

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi declared that the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh would taste defeat at the hands of his party in the 2012 Assembly elections.

Mr. Gandhi scotched rumours of a tie-up between the Congress and the BSP in the light of the latter’s support to the UPA government on the cut motion in Parliament.

Days after the BSP extended support to the UPA against opposition-sponsored cut motions in Parliament, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi clarified that there is no pact between the Congress and the BSP. In fact, he said, there would be no pact with the…