Seeking to retain the family stronghold of Rae Bareli, the only Lok Sabha seat in UP that Congress won in 2019, Rahul Gandhi reached the constituency on Monday morning to supervise booth management, reported.
Rahul paid obeisance at Sankatmochan Hanuman temple in Bachhrawan, a tradition his family has followed for generations, before visiting the polling stations in Harchandpur, from where complaints of EVM malfunctioning had started pouring in since morning.He first reached the polling station at Mahatma Gandhi Inter College, asked his polling agents if everything was in order and went inside to take a quick look at one of the booths.
He also rushed to Mainpur village, where people had decided to boycott the polls to protest lack of a connecting road in their area, and joined the local administration in persuading the village elders not to stall the democratic process.
Polling in the village resumed after 4pm. Meanwhile, Rahul’s opponent and BJP candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh said he hoped people of Rae Bareli had voted for “growth and development over sugar-coated talks”. “The faith of people in PM Modi and his policies has grown steadily over the past few elections,” he said.
Rahul paid obeisance at Sankatmochan Hanuman temple in Bachhrawan, a tradition his family has followed for generations, before visiting the polling stations in Harchandpur, from where complaints of EVM malfunctioning had started pouring in since morning.He first reached the polling station at Mahatma Gandhi Inter College, asked his polling agents if everything was in order and went inside to take a quick look at one of the booths.
He also rushed to Mainpur village, where people had decided to boycott the polls to protest lack of a connecting road in their area, and joined the local administration in persuading the village elders not to stall the democratic process.
Polling in the village resumed after 4pm. Meanwhile, Rahul’s opponent and BJP candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh said he hoped people of Rae Bareli had voted for “growth and development over sugar-coated talks”. “The faith of people in PM Modi and his policies has grown steadily over the past few elections,” he said.
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