Rahul Gandhi to expose Centre, TRS government's failures in Congress rally in Sangareddy

With speculations of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi government announcing early state election started doing the rounds, the political atmosphere in Telangana has got all charged up.  

After the visit of Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to address a mega "Telangana Praja Garjana (roar of Telangana people) rally at Sangareddy, some 65 kilometres away from Hyderabad today.  

Rahul is expected to train his guns on the BJP-led NDA government and the TRS-run state government for their 'failures' on several fronts during his rally.

According to Congress leaders, Rahul will reach the Begumpet Airport in the afternoon and garland a statue of late PM Rajiv Gandhi. He will also greet Congress leaders at



different places in the city before leaving for the Ambedkar Stadium in Sangareddy, the site of the rally.

HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF VENUE

The venue is historically significant as the Ambedkar Stadium is the same place where former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi addressed a public meeting in 1979 and led the Congress back to power in the 1980 general elections. She contested from Medak Parliamentary seat, of which Sangareddy is an assembly segment, and got elected to the 7th Lok Sabha in 1980.

The state Congress unit has made elaborate arrangements for the rally and its leaders are expecting the participation of over 2 lakh people for the mega rally. The party has also mobilized 10 leaders from each of the 8,560 gram panchayats in the Telangana State for the public meeting.