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Dard-e-Benaras: Congress roadshow takes UP poll battle to Modi turf, but Sonia falls sick in torrid heat; PM tweets get well soon

Varanasi/New Delhi, Aug 2 (UNI)'Dard–e-Benaras' campaign, launched through a mega road show by a combative Congress in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha turf, today started on a feverish pitch with party president Sonia Gandhi charging up the party rank and file to fire on all cylinders for the coming crucial Assembly polls in the Hindi heartland state of Uttar Pradesh, but she had to retire almost at the fag end of the show due to dehydration and humid weather in the city of temples.
Sounding the poll bugle with the campaign 'Dard-e-Banaras' (the pain of Varanasi), Ms Sonia Gandhi launched her party's campaign for the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections through a mega road show in the city.
Waving to party supporters, Ms Gandhi boarded a SUV and started the show with full pomp and show. The cavalcade of cars drove slowly through the streets of the temple town in a 8 km road show to signal that her party was serious for the coming UP polls.
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