Congress Party has kick startedits election campaign in poll bound state Uttar Pradesh with a 3 day bus yatra in the state. The bus with slogan "27 saal, UP behaal" which translates to ''27 years of UP in ruins" was flagged off by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and Vice President of the party Rahul Gandhi. Top Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is the general secretary in-charge of party affairs in the state, Sheila Dikshit, the party’s chief ministerial face in the state, and state unit chief Raj Babbar, along with others will travel in the bus that will halt at various places en route Kanpur. 

The yatra will cover four districts each day and will halt at Moradabad on the first day, covering important districts in western Uttar Pradesh. It will then travel to Shahjahanpur, covering Rampur and Bareilly and on the third day it will cover Hardoi, Kannauj and then end at Kanpur. Sources say the Congress aims to target not one particular party that has governed Uttar Pradesh, but all governments that have led the state since the Congress was last in charge.