Ahead of Lok Sabha elections in April, the Congress, on Monday, rolled out its mega rally in Uttar Pradesh. Ms Gandhi was greeted by hundreds of Congress workers.
In Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow, on Monday,Priyanka Gandhi Vadra drew big crowds as she launched her campaign for the national election with a roadshow two weeks after her debut in politics. Priyanka Gandhi, along with her brother and Congress president Rahul Gandhi and fellow UP in-charge Jyotiraditya Scindia waved at hundreds of supporters from the top of a modified truck that was decorated in party colours.
The low-hanging electricity wires in the congested city forced the Gandhi siblings to switch to an SUV, they sat cross-legged on its roof and resumed their journey. They also stopped for hot tea and little chats on the way; near a decades-old cinema theatre Congress workers surrounded their car.
47-year-old Priyanka, no stranger to roadshows with her brother, is campaigning for the first time outside the Gandhi family constituencies of Amethi and Raebareli.
For the first time in decades, the party managed to generate a buzz in UP, that too in its capital, which has voted the BJP in every election since 1991.
“Priyanka and Scindia-ji will work for the Lok Sabha election but their mission goes beyond that to the assembly polls. We will not relent until we establish a Congress government in UP,” said Rahul Gandhi meanwhile the roadshow was ongoing.
Stressing that his party was in UP for the long-time. He threw his signatory statement against the opposition oft-repeated “Chowkidar chor hai”, targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi on corruption. The chant, picked up by the workers, followed them for much of the journey.
“I hope that we can all come together to bring about a new kind of politics. A kind of politics in which all of you will be stakeholders,” Priyanka said in an audio message through the party’s Shakti App on Sunday.
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