Rahul Gandhi holds talks on UP assembly polls

AMETHI: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday met Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh to discuss the party's prospects in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.
Speaking to reporters after their half an hour-long meeting here, Singh said Rahul held talks on the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections slated early next year.
Rahul is on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency.
In a closed door meeting with legislators in Lucknow on Thursday, Rahul had discussed option of forming an alliance for the assembly elections on the pattern of Bihar where the party put up a good show as part of grand alliance in the assembly polls winning 27 of 41 seats contested, a party MLA had said on condition of anonymity.
Gandhi also met Bhartiya Kisan Union's district unit president Pramod Misra, who apprised him of the issues being faced by the employees of Sanjay Gandhi Hospital, and Jagdishpur MLA Radhey Shyam.