Meanwhile, Akhilesh Yadav, who has been elusive on the ground, will start addressing public meetings from April 13 to 17 in constituencies going to the polls in the first phase. However, his final programme will be released by the party soon after consulting Congress headquarters in order to avert a clash with joint public meetings with Rahul and Priyanka.As per sources, senior Congress leader and the party’s UP in-charge Avinash Pandey had called on Akhilesh Yadav at the party headquarters on Monday and discussed modalities of the joint campaign. He, later, confirmed that a joint SP-Congress rally would soon be organised. He also said that the leaders of the two parties would also hold joint campaigns across UP.Notably, while the BJP has been active on the ground with all its top brass including PM Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP chief JP Nadda and UP CM Yogi Adityanath addressing back-to-back rallies in the constituencies set to vote in the first and second phases, the INDI bloc partners have yet to be seen in poll arena.



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