LUCKNOW: Microsoft chief Bill Gates will join Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on a visit to his parliamentary constituency, Amethi, in Uttar Pradesh Tuesday.
The visit was kept a closely guarded secret until late Monday evening, party sources said.
Even top state Congress leaders were unaware of the move, as Gandhi had intended it to be a completely quiet affair, away from media gaze.
However, it is learnt that Gandhi proposes to take Gates to the same village where he spent a night along with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in a ramshackle hut belonging to a poor Dalit.
The Congress leader is also understood to have arranged an interaction between Gates and women self-help groups formed by him in his constituency.
They propose to take a chartered flight from New Delhi to Fursatganj from where they would drive down to Amethi around 10 a.m.
(If you were Bill Gates, which area of India would you have preferred to visit and what kind of people would you have wanted to help? As a reader, do you think Gates' Amethi visit will translate into some financial assistance to the Dalits community there or the women self help groups? Please give your opinions in the box below.)