Rahul Gandhi in Phulpur "Only Congress thinks about development" ". Rahul Gandhi will be spearheading the Congress campaign in the state for the 'Mission UP-2012'. In the last Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi had led the Congress campaign and the party could do a morale boosting performance. The party will focus the issues of lawlessness, corruption, misrule and attacks on women and poor people under the Mayawati Government. The campaign will also be focused to highlight the poor record of non-Congress governments on development, crime, opportunities for youth and farmers' issues. Rahul Gandhi during his address in Phulpur highlighted the bad state of affairs under the Mayawati Government in the state. This is the Constituency of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru who showed Uttar Pradesh the path of development said Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi starting his address. "There was a time when Uttar Pradesh showed the entire nation the path of development. But today the entire nation is moving ahead, but UP goes back wards. The state of UP is ruled by the mafia and criminals" said Rahul Gandhi. "I am in politics for the past seven years and I visited many places in UP Experience taught me that unless a leader goes to the people, he cannot understand the problems of the common man. Unless you drink the water from a poor man's home and get sick, you will not realize the real hardship of a common man.