New Delhi May 16 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi will on Thursday visit Chhattisgarh to launch his party s campaign ahead of the Assembly elections scheduled to be held by the end of this year.
A party statement said Gandhi will attend a Jan Swaraj sammelan at Balbir Singh Juneja Indoor Stadium in Raipur on May 17.
On the same day he will attend a Kisan-Adivasi rally at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium in Surguja district followed by a Jungle Satyagraha Adivasi Rally in Bilaspur district.
In the 2013 Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh the BJP won 49 seats and the Congress 39 in the 90-member Assembly.

--IANS sid/tsb/mr