Local leader, a Red suspect, takes the dais at Rahul rally

by pankaj kumar | August 26, 2010 at 07:15 pm

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Rahul gandhi shared the rally plateform with the Maoist leader ,politics is playing their card .Rahul is using local card to bring back congress in the region.

var facebookktitle='Local leader, a Red suspect, takes the dais at Rahul rally';var facebooksyn='The Dongria Kondh leader addressing the same tribal rally as the Congress general secretary on Thursday led to many an arched eyebrow because the police claims Sikoka is a suspected Maoist.'; LANJIGARH (KALAHANDI): One isn't sure whether Rahul Gandhi is aware who Lado Sikoka is, but the Dongria Kondh leader addressing the same tribal rally as the Congress general secretary on Thursday led to many an arched eyebrow because the police claims Sikoka is a suspected Maoist.

Sikoka (38), a prominent tribal agitating against Vedanta group's bid to mine bauxite from Niyamgiri Hills, delivered his address to thousands of people shortly before Rahul landed at the venue on a chopper. Sikoka, who has been in the news since the police picked him up on August 9 and later released him under mysterious circumstances, garlanded Rahul in the presence of senior Congress leaders and security personnel