Rahul Gandhi on a two-day visit to Punjab

Chandigarh: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day visit to Punjab from Wednesday during which he will interact with party cadres. He will be interacting with party leaders in Amritsar, Jalandhar and Patiala. This will be his first visit to the state since the party's debacle in the assembly elections.

After landing at Raja Sansi Airport at Amritsar he will drive to the venue of his first meeting on the Airport Road itself, a party spokesman said in Chandigarh on Tuesday. He will be received by the Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh and other senior party leaders from Punjab. During the first session he will be addressing the office bearers of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, the PCC members, the members of the executive body, the district Congress committee presidents, the block presidents and present and former MPs and MLAs.

The Congress leader will also interact with the heads of the four frontal organisations of the party including the Punjab Mahilla Congress, the NSUI, the Punjab Youth Congress. Later, he will address a convention being organised by the Punjab Youth Congress on the Attari border.

Next day Rahul will meet the former PCC and district presidents at the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee office. Later in the day he will address a students' rally being organised by the Punjab unit of the National Students' Union of India in the Punjab University.