Rahul Gandhi's UP yatra heads to Shrawasthi

New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's pan-Uttar Pradesh yatra will move from Bahraich to Shrawasthi on Wednesday.

The Jan Sampark Yatra was flagged off from Barabanki on Tuesday and will travel to various districts in eastern UP over the next 3 days, with the final halt being at Kushinagar.

Rahul hopes to assess the conditions of the common man through this journey ahead of the 2012 state assembly elections.

Earlier, Rahul started his five-day Jan Sampark Abhiyaan (public contact programme) in election bound Uttar Pradesh on a more sedate note than his November 14 rally in Jhoosi, Phulpur, near Allahabad where he was very strident and aggressive.

Embarking on his Jan Sampark Abhiyaan from Barabanki in central Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi claimed that the Congress was committed to provide the state a government that would take care of the 'aam aadmi' (common man), a slogan than he has used several times to target the Mayawati government.

Addressing party workers in Barabanki, the Congress scion carefully chose his words to target the state government, perhaps to avoid the controversy that erupted after he called the migrants from Uttar Pradesh beggars.