Bangalore, Sep 29 (DHNS): The Congress party is making hectic preparations for the public rally to be addressed by AICC chief Sonia Gandhi in Mandya on September 30.
The preparations include putting up posters at public places from Kengeri to Mandya, mobilising more than a lakh people for the public rally, besides, distributing laddu and butter milk to the party workers.
The rally is being organised to thank the people of the State for voting the Congress to power and State party president G Parameshwara has placed an order for one lakh laddus to be distributed to those attending the rally.
Congress general secretary N S Bosa Raju said as many as 20 LCD monitors will be installed in the Visvesvaraya stadium, the venue for the rally. All the four Union ministers from Karnataka, AICC general secretary in-charge of Karnataka Digvijay Singh, and a host of MPs and MLAs, besides former Union minister S M Krishna will be present, he said.
Bosa Raju said Sonia will reach Mandya by a helicopter from the HAL airport, Bangalore, and will address the rally at 3 pm and leave for New Delhi before 4.30 pm. Digvijay Singh is arriving on Sunday night.