Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will set out for a joint campaign here on Sunday for the high stakes Assembly elections in the state.
The two leaders, who will come together for the first time after Congress and SP reached a pre-poll alliance with an aim to bag over 300 of the 403 Assembly seats.
“The two leaders will address a joint press conference in Lucknow on Sunday afternoon to give a clear message not just to their respective party cadres but also the people of the state of a united effort of the two parties to defeat communal parties,” a senior SP leader said.
A joint poster with the slogan ‘UP ko yeh saath pasand hai’ having the pictures of both Rahul and Akhilesh and their respective party symbols will also be released on the occasion.
The ‘tricolour’ and ‘red and green’ colours of both the parties will form the border of the posters.
After the press interaction, the two leaders will hold a joint road show across the densely populated areas of the state capital, he said, adding that the road show will start from Gandhi Statue in the Hazratganj area.
The route of the road show has been decided so that it also covers the Muslim-dominated areas besides the areas which have concentration of the youth population.
