After Narendra Modi's successful rally in Jaipur on September 10, the ruling Congress party was under pressure to ensure big turnouts of people at the Churu and Khedli rallies.
Congress had fared badly in the two regions in the 2008 assembly elections.Congress hopes to improve chances in north Rajasthan, which marked one of its worst performances in the last assembly elections.
Congress sources said, the reason why the rally venues were chosen was becaue this was the only region where neither Rahul nor Sonia Gandhi has addressed any public rally in past three months.
