Congress president Sonia Gandhi is the Rae Bareli MP. The Yogi government has promised 24-hour power supply at the district headquarters and 18 hours in the rural areas. “We often hear rumours that the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) may be shifted from Rae Bareli to Varanasi. Rahul Gandhi had announced setting up of Aviation University at Rae Bareli in 2013 and its building is nearing completion. Rahul Gandhi visited Lucknow this week to handover a memorandum focusing on the problems of farmers to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

Source: Hindustan Times August 05, 2017 08:26 UTC