Bill Gates visits Amethi with Rahul Gandhi, promises to set up IT hub

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates today visited the high-profile Amethi Lok Sabha constituency of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and promised to develop it as an IT hub.

After landing at the airstrip in the constituency Gates accompanied by Gandhi drove to Bahadurpur village in Jais to address a meeting of the Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojna, a self-help group of women.

Explaining the importance of computer education he promised to do his best for the development of Amethi and adjoining Rae Bareli, Congress president Sonia Gandhi's constituency.

Gandhi and Gates are expected to visit several villages and see various development works underway in Amethi costituency.

The Congress leader had spent a night along with British foreign secretary David Miliband in the ramshackle hut of one Shivkumari Kori, a poor Dalit at Simara village in Amethi in January last year.

Gandhi is likely to take the philanthropist chairman to the same village.