The Congress chief and AICC president Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to hold a rally in Tripura on March 20 next in the run-up to the upcoming Loksabha elections, Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee officials said here today.
This will be the first Tripura visit of Gandhi after being elected as AICC president.
He has recently appointed Tripura royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarman as the state chief of Congress party replacing senior party leader and former minister Birjit Sinha to rejuvenate the party and stimulate Congress rank and file.
According to schedule, Gandhi will have a separate meeting with Pradyot Kishore and Tripura Pradesh Congress committee leaders followed by addressing a mass rally in Agartala to kick off the campaign for upcoming Loksabha election.
 
With the appointment of new state chief, Congress has got a boost and several senior leaders including former chief minister and incumbent health minister of BJP Samir Ranjan Barman have joined in the party and many more will join soon.
BJP will face a real election this time in Tripura, said TPCC leader Rahul Saha. He, however, stated that regional tribal parties have also been facing the erosion after Maharaja Pradyot became Pradesh Congress committee president.
A sizable number of supports of BJP’s electoral partner in the government Indigenous Peoples’ Front of Tripura (IPFT) are now ready to join in Congress under the leadership of Maharaja.