The General Secretary of Congress Priyanka Gandhi Vadra reached Rae Bareli on Tuesday to meet the family of former Congress legislator Akhilesh Singh who breathed his last on August 20. Priyanka expressed her mother Sonia Gandhi's condolences to his family and spent around half an hour with them.

Akhilesh Singh's daughter Aditi Singh became a Congress MLA from Rae Bareli Sadar seat which was earlier held by her father. Gandhi later left to meet her party workers at Bhuemau Guest House. She would later proceed to Lalganj's Modern Rail Coach factory where the workers are protesting against its privatisation.