Rahul renews call to UP's youth to support him for development

Khatauli, UP, Mar 19 (UNI) Renewing his call to UP's youth to aid him in ''bringing the state back on the path of development,'' Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi today urged them to ''free UP'' from the clutches of ''goonda raj and ''maladministration.'' Quoting Swami Vivekananda's exhortation to ''awake, arise and stop not,'' he told a large crowd here that the ''accomplishment of this task was well within their hands'' and he would ''march shoulder-to-shoulder with them to put the state back on the rails of development and prosperity.'' Addressing a rally here on his way to Muzaffarnagar town on the second day of his whistle-stop tour of Western UP, which effectively marks the start of the Congress' election campaign in the poll-bound state, Rahul, however, told those assembled that his visit was ''not merely due to the coming elections'' and he would ''work as long as it takes with them to usher in development again.'' Recalling his trips to various parts of India, he said he had noted that most of the development was due to the efforts of the people of UP.

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