Assembly Election 2012: Congress to unveil manifesto for UP today

NEW DELHI: After the Vision 2020 document, the Congress will launch its manifesto for Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday from 10 cities and towns. Senior Central ministers and Congress leaders will unveil the party's agenda for the next five years if voted to power, even as party general secretary Rahul Gandhi will get on with his poll rallies in Sitapur and Barabanki.

The manifesto will be released simultaneously on Tuesday afternoon from Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Kanpur, Agra, Gorakhpur, Shahjahanpur, Saharanpur, Jhansi and Bareilly. Senior Congress leaders as well as Central ministers will fan out to these towns to launch the document.

They include Congress general secretary in charge of UP Digvijaya Singh, Janardhan Dwivedi, Delhi chief minister Shiela Dikshit, law minister Salman Khurshid, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal, telecom minister Kapil Sibal, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, I&B minister Ambika Soni, Punjab chief ministerial nominee Amarinder Singh and technocrat Sam Pitroda, among others.