New Delhi: Congress get together common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday started a tour of Sonia Gandhi’s Rae Bareli constituency to spice up the morale of staff forward of the electoral battle for Uttar Pradesh scheduled to occur early subsequent yr.
This comes as she faces a stiff problem to revive Congress in Uttar Pradesh whereas latest exit-poll predictions don’t carry a lot hope for the get together.
During her assembly with get together staff, Priyanka Gandhi stated that Congress will declare candidates properly in time for the state meeting elections, PTI reported a celebration chief as informing.
Beginning the two-day tour of her mom’s parliamentary constituency, Priyanka Gandhi first visited a Hanuman temple in Churuva on the Lucknow-Rae Bareli border and supplied prayers there.
“Office bearers of the district unit and city unit of the party met Priyanka ji. Members of various frontal organisations, party candidates and zila panchayat members of the Congress also met her,” Vinay Dwivedi, Spokesperson of Rae Bareli’s District Congress Committee, advised information company PTI,Â
He revealed that Priyanka stated get together candidates shall be declared properly in time because the declaration of candidates was relatively late within the earlier elections.
“She also went to Tiloi in the neighbouring district of Amethi, after some party workers from Amethi informed her about an accident. She will tour the rural area of Rae Bareli before leaving for Lucknow,” he added.
Priyanka Gandhi visited Dodarpur village in Amethi’s Tiloi space the place three kids died in a wall collapse on September 6. The Congress common secretary reached Todarpur village at round 8 pm and met members of the family of the deceased. Priyanka Gandhi consoled them and warranted them of all potential assist.
She additionally inquired concerning the well-being of two different kids who have been injured within the accident.
Meanwhile, Priyanka Gandhi additionally criticised the Yogi Adityanath over using a inventory picture of a Kolkata flyover in an Uttar Pradesh authorities advertorial, saying the individuals of the state have seen by their “false claims” and are going to alter the chief minister and the federal government.
Congress Connection With Rae Bareli
Rae Bareli is the bastion of the Gandhi household again from the times of Indira Gandhi and has 5 meeting seats out of which two are with the Congress and the BJP every, and one is with the Samajwadi Party.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi represents the Rae Bareli constituency within the Lok Sabha.
The parliamentary constituency of Rae Bareli consists of Bachhrawan (SC), Harchandpur, Rae Bareli, Sareni and Unchahar meeting segments.
In the 2017 UP meeting elections, the Congress registered wins in Harchandpur and Rae Bareli meeting constituencies. Rakesh Singh and Aditi Singh received from Harchandpur and Rae Bareli respectively.Â
The Congress was decreased to seven seats within the 2017 UP meeting polls. In one other shock for Congress, the then-party president Rahul Gandhi additionally needed to face defeat at Amethi within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections by the hands of Union minister Smriti Irani.
Now the grand outdated get together has pinned its hopes on get together secretary-general Priyanka Gandhi for a turnaround within the Hindi heartland.
(With Agency Inputs)
