Rahul Gandhi to interact with party workers, students during visit

MUMBAI: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will address party workers and also interact with college students during his two-day visit to the city beginning January 15.

On arrival in Mumbai, Gandhi will address a meeting of party workers in Malad in North Mumbai and later inaugurate the Murli Deora Hall at the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee office in South Mumbai.

On January 16, Gandhi will interact with management students of a college in suburban Vile Parle.

He will then participate in Padyatra from Bandra Bandstand to Dharavi slum.

The Congress high command has sought an explanation from Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam over the issue of articles in a party journal slamming Jawaharlal Nehru and terming Sonia Gandhi's father a "fascist soldier".

The Disciplinary Action Committee of AICC headed by senior leader AK Antony has issued a show-cause notice to Nirupam in the wake of the controversy.