Lucknow: Congress postponed its program scheduled on Friday to honor the newly elected Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh.
UP Congress President Ajay Rai said that the program has been postponed but he did not give any reason for the postponement.
However, party sources said they did not want the incident to happen in Lucknow on a day when senior party leader Rahul Gandhi had gone to Aligarh and Hathras to meet the family members of those killed in the stampede that killed 121 people. The program should be organised.
The Congress, which fought the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections with the Samajwadi Party, has won six seats from UP, sending 80 MPs to the lower house - the highest for any state.
Rai said that the new date of the program will be decided soon. He said that all the party candidates contesting the elections will be invited to the programme.
Rahul Gandhi, who won the Lok Sabha elections from Rae Bareli seat, had met the families of the stampede victims in Aligarh and Hathras this morning.
Before Rahul Gandhi, Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency was represented by his mother Sonia Gandhi for more than two decades.
Congress's KL Sharma won from Amethi by defeating Union Minister Smriti Irani. UP Congress chief Ajay Rai contested the elections from Varanasi and finished runner-up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was elected from the seat for the third time.
Rai lost the election by a margin of more than 1.52 lakh votes.
UP Congress President Ajay Rai said that the program has been postponed but he did not give any reason for the postponement.
However, party sources said they did not want the incident to happen in Lucknow on a day when senior party leader Rahul Gandhi had gone to Aligarh and Hathras to meet the family members of those killed in the stampede that killed 121 people. The program should be organised.
The Congress, which fought the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections with the Samajwadi Party, has won six seats from UP, sending 80 MPs to the lower house - the highest for any state.
Rai said that the new date of the program will be decided soon. He said that all the party candidates contesting the elections will be invited to the programme.
Rahul Gandhi, who won the Lok Sabha elections from Rae Bareli seat, had met the families of the stampede victims in Aligarh and Hathras this morning.
Before Rahul Gandhi, Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency was represented by his mother Sonia Gandhi for more than two decades.
Congress's KL Sharma won from Amethi by defeating Union Minister Smriti Irani. UP Congress chief Ajay Rai contested the elections from Varanasi and finished runner-up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was elected from the seat for the third time.
Rai lost the election by a margin of more than 1.52 lakh votes.
