Lucknow:
300 Dalit families in Uttar Pradesh will have VIP house-guests on Friday night. The occasion, incidentally, is Gandhi Jayanti.
Congress district heads across the state will spend the night at a Dalit hut, following Rahul Gandhi's recent example in Shravasti.
Here's the 'who's who' list of Congressmen who will sleepover at Dalit homes in their respective districts:
Congress district heads across the state will spend the night at a Dalit hut, following Rahul Gandhi's recent example in Shravasti.
Here's the 'who's who' list of Congressmen who will sleepover at Dalit homes in their respective districts:
- Moradabad: Mohammad Azharuddin, Congress MP
- Ferozabad: Raj Babbar, Congress candidate for Lok Sabha by-election
- Shahjahanpur: Jitin Prasada, Minister of State
- Mau: Jagdambika Pal, former Chief Minister
- Pratapgarh: Pramod Tiwari, Congress' leader in the UP Assembly
- Allahabad: Rita Bahuguna, UP Congress chief; she spent two weeks in judicial custoday in July, for alleged derogatory remarks against Mayawati
- Barabanki: P L Punia, Congress' Dalit face in the state; used to be a close aide of Mayawati
- Farrukhabad: Salman Khursheed, Congress MP
- Shravasti: Vinay Pandey, Former minister
- Bahraich: Kamal Kishore Commando
- Faizabad: Nirmal Khatri, Congress MP
- Jhansi: Pradip Jain Aditya, Congress MP
- Kanpur: Shriprakash Jaiswal, Congress MP
- Unnao: Annu Tandon, Congress MP and social worker
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