Rahul to address three rallies in northeast on Wednesday

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New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi addresses at the release of the party's manifesto for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, in New Delhi, on April 2, 2019.

Guwahati,  Congress President Rahul Gandhi will address three back to back election rallies in Nagaland and Assam on Wednesday.

Gandhi will address the first rally at Dimapur in Nagaland on Wednesday morning.

Nagaland’s lone Lok Sabha seat is going to polls on April 11 in the first phase.

While Congress has fielded veteran K.L. Chishi for the seat, the state’s ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party-led alliance has fielded Tokheho Yepthomi.

Gandhi will address the second rally at Bokakhat in Assam’s Golaghat district for sitting Kaliabor MP Gaurav Gogoi, followed by the third rally at the state’s Lakhimpur district for party candidate Anil Borgohain from Lakhimpur constituency.

Both Kaliabor and Lakhimpur seats will also go to polls in the first phase on April 11.