India moving ahead, UP going backwards, says Rahul Gandhi

In a punching speech to the gathering at the Phulpur rally, sounding the poll campaign for the upcoming Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi spoke on “Nehru’s Phulpur”, the poor of the state and what a leader should do.

“This Phulpur is Nehruji’s workplace. . . And Mr. Nehru showed Uttar Pradesh the path – showed the path of development, the path of Progress. There was a time when Uttar Pradesh showed the path to the whole of India. Today India is fast moving ahead, Uttar Pradesh is going backwards. On one hand Mr. Nehru was the MP of this place, while on the other, today, mafia and criminals are elected the MPs from here,” said the Amethi MP.

The Phulpur constituency was once an Indian National Congress bastion from where Rahul’s great grandfather and India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru used to fight elections from.

The era of the Grand Old Party in the region subsequently died after the expiring of Mr. Nehru. Since then, it has remained an “old fortress” for the Congress which wants to claim it back this time around.

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