Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will campaign in South Delhi’s Kalkaji Assembly constituency for Delhi Assembly Elections on Tuesday.
Rahul will hold a roadshow today in Kalkaji with Pradesh Congress committee chief Arvinder Singh Lovely accompanying him.
Congress is expected to intensify its campaign between January 25 and February 5 and the party will hold as many as 150 meetings.
Chief Ministers of Kerala, Karnataka, Assam, Uttarakhand are among those who will campaign for the party in the polls.
Congress was relegated to the third position in the last Assembly polls after 15 years in power winning only eight seats in the 70-member Assembly.
Facing a tough electoral battle, Congress has made an array of promises in its manifesto like significant cut in power rates, wi-fi facilities in public transport, waving off pending water bills and ensuring a graft-free administration if voted to power in Delhi.
The party also promised to set up cyber cafes, carry out major expansion of Delhi Metro, give concessional metro passes for students, increase pension to all deserving categories to Rs 2,000 per month, hike the salary of aganwadi workers by upto 50 per cent and provide 24×7 diagnostic centres in the state-run hospitals.
In the 16-page manifesto released jointly by DPCC chief Arvinder Singh Lovely, party’s Delhi Election Campaign Committee Chief Ajay Makhen and AICC-in-charge of Delhi P C Chacko, Congress highlighted achievements during the UPA rule as well as that of the Sheila Dikshit dispensation.