Rahul Gandhi persuades villagers to not boycott polling | Lucknow Information
LUCKNOW: Looking for to retain the household stronghold of Rae Bareli, the one Lok Sabha seat in UP that the Congress received in 2019, Rahul Gandhi reached the constituency on Monday morning to oversee the sales space administration, studies Shailvee Sharda.
Rahul paid obeisance at Sankatmochan Hanuman temple in Bachhrawan, a practice his household has adopted for a number of generations, earlier than visiting the polling stations in Harchandpur.
He first reached the polling station at Mahatma Gandhi Inter School, requested his polling brokers if all the pieces was so as and went inside to take a fast take a look at one of many cubicles. At a number of locations, Congress employees and supporters raised slogans of “zindabad” and “jeetega bhai jeetega”. In BJP pockets, nonetheless, slogans of “Jai Shri Ram” and “Jo Ram ko laye hain, hum unko layenge (we’ll guarantee victory of those that bought Ram again to Ayodhya)” greeted Rahul. The Congress MP rushed to Mainpur village, the place individuals had determined to boycott the polls to protest lack of a connecting street of their space, and joined the administration in persuading the village elders to not stall the democratic course of.
Polling within the village resumed after 4 pm. Rahul’s chief opponent and BJP candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh hoped Rae Bareli had voted for “progress and growth”.
