Sonia Gandhi complains of high fever, Varanasi road show halted

August 02, 2016 21:01

Sonia Gandhi's roadshow in Varanasi comes to a screeching halt. The Congress president is running a high fever and is now headed back to Delhi. Reports indicate that the Congress president has been put on drip at Varanasi airport.

Gandhi on Tuesday launched her party's campaign for the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly election with a massive roadshow in Varanasi. Thousands of Congress supporters and workers took part in the roadshow from the Circuit House to Englishiya Line, a distance of about eight kilometres.

The march began with Gandhi garlanding the statue of B R Ambedkar at the Circuit House and the marchers crisscrossed lanes and bylanes of the temple town.

Gandhi, who was travelling in a vehicle with a sun roof waved at the crowd which cheered and raised slogans against the Modi government.

She came out of her vehicle several times to accept the greetings of the cheering supporters, including groups of Muslim women. As the road show passed through several localities, rose petals were showered on Gandhi and her cavalcade from adjoining buildings.

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