Rahul to visit Mumbai on Jan 15-16

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 11 2016 | 10:57 PM IST
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who was back from Europe trip on Sunday, will visit Mumbai on January 15 and 16 during which he will hold meetings with party leaders and is expected to hold an interaction with students.
Rahul today held confabulations with a number of senior party leaders, including Amarinder Singh, chief of PCC in Punjab where Congress is making a bid for power in the 2017 assembly polls.
The Congress Vice President is learnt to have enquired in detail about the Pathankot terror attack during his meetings with party leaders.
Sources said Rahul as well as Congress President Sonia Gandhi were of the view that the decision to hold the Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary-level talks should be left to the government based on merits and "since the government has not inolved the major Opposition party" on the issue, it should not pre-empt the government's decision on the matter.
Sources said that both the Congress President and the Vice President were of the view that the party should not take a strident stand on the matter either for or against the talks as a decision on the issue fell in the domain of government.
Congress has maintained from time to time that terror and talks cannot got together.
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Later, at another meeting in Azamgarh, Rahul continued his attack on Modi.
"He (Modi) does not go to the farmers so that his suit does not get dirty. He is a leader who loves to travel US and China," Rahul said.
Earlier, Rahul started his yatra from the circuit house and addressed meetings at Belisa mandi, Pahelwan Murti, Sidhari crossing, Shahgarh, Satihav and Mubarakpur.
Enroute Mau, he had 'chai' (tea) and 'samosa' at a local shop and later paid visit to a Dalit family's home and had lunch there.
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First Published: Jan 11 2016 | 10:57 PM IST

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