Overview

• Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi concluded a three-day private stay in Wayanad and flew to New Delhi on Monday morning.
• They traveled by road to Calicut International Airport after bad weather grounded a planned helicopter transfer and departed around 11 a.m. on a chartered flight.
• During the visit, Rahul Gandhi held informal discussions with AICC organiser K. C. Venugopal and KPCC chief Sunny Joseph on Kerala’s political situation and troubles in the Wayanad District Congress Committee.
• Priyanka Gandhi Vadra continued her week-long constituency outreach and was scheduled to fly out of Calicut later Monday night after meetings in Malappuram.
• Sonia and Priyanka made an unplanned stop at Ramesh Chennithala’s anti-drug march in Kalpetta, while other engagements included an auditorium inauguration named for Oommen Chandy and a sapling-planting visit to the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation.