BHOPAL: AICC president Rahul Gandhi will be in Bhopal next Monday. But his public meeting in Vidisha that evening which was previously planned, has been cancelled. State Congress president Kamal Nath said, "The AICC president is coming to Bhopal on September 17. He will board a bus from Lal Ghati and travel to Dussehra Maidan (in BHEL). This will be a roadshow. At Dussehra Maidan he will hold talks with state Congress office-bearers."State Congress was planning to launch Rahul Gandhi’s election campaign from one of BJP’s strongest fortresses Vidisha, home district of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Lok Sabha seat of Union minister for external affairs Sushma Swaraj. Since 1989, Vidisha Lok Sabha seat has always been won by BJP candidates. It elected former Prime Minister and BJP patriarch Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1991 and thereafter, Shivraj Singh Chouhan for five terms till he became chief minister and vacated the seat.On Monday, state Congress leaders explained that there were various reasons why the public meeting of Vidisha had to be shelved. "Rahulji wants to start in Madhya Pradesh from the party’s organisation. That is why his first meeting will be with party office-bearers and workers," said state Congress media convener Narendra Saluja.Sources in the party said that more than Rahul Gandhi, it was the security assessment that shelved the Vidisha public meeting on the evening of September 17. "For security, we have to depend on the state government. And there were some hiccups for which the public meeting has been postponed for now," a senior Congress leader told TOI. "But the Vidisha public meeting will be held. It might get postponed but Congress attack on chief minister Chouhan’s home district is part of the election campaign programme of Rahul Gandhi," he added.State PCC office also said that the AICC president’s exact itinerary is yet to reach them. "We are waiting for the final approval and schedule from New Delhi," state Congress office said.