Cong says Priyanka to campaign for UP polls
New Delhi: Nov 19, 2016, DHNS
Rahul meets senior party leaders to discuss strategy
Post demonetisation, the Congress was back at the table for re-calibrating its strategy for Uttar Pradesh and planning to introduce Priyanka Vadra in the campaign for elections early next year.
The strategy meeting was held at Rahul Gandhi’s residence and was attended by Priyanka, Congress’ chief ministerial face Shiela Dikshit, campaign committee chief Sanjay Sinh and UP Congress chief Raj Babbar, among others. “Priyanka has acceded to our request. But when and where she would campaign is not finalised yet,” Babbar told reporters here.
Meanwhile, Priyanka is scheduled to share the stage with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi at a function to inaugurate an exhibition on late prime minister Indira Gandhi at her ancestral home in Allahabad.
Congress leaders believe that the demonetisation decision has wiped out all the gains the BJP had made by announcing the surgical strikes against terror camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
The September 29 surgical strikes, made public by the government through a press conference by the Director General of Military Operations, had changed the political equation in favour of the BJP, a section of the Congress leaders said.
Rahul had undertaken a nearly 3,500 km Kisan Yatra across Uttar Pradesh in a bid to rejuvenate the moribund organisation.
The Congress has been out of power in the state for the last 27 years. Priyanka has been taking active interest in planning the strategy for Uttar Pradesh, where the party is keen to make a mark and play the role of kingmaker.
In the 2012 elections, the Congress had won 28 seats in the 403-member state Assembly.
Of these, eight have either quit the party or have been expelled by the Congress for hobnobbing with rival parties.
DH News Service
The strategy meeting was held at Rahul Gandhi’s residence and was attended by Priyanka, Congress’ chief ministerial face Shiela Dikshit, campaign committee chief Sanjay Sinh and UP Congress chief Raj Babbar, among others. “Priyanka has acceded to our request. But when and where she would campaign is not finalised yet,” Babbar told reporters here.
Meanwhile, Priyanka is scheduled to share the stage with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi at a function to inaugurate an exhibition on late prime minister Indira Gandhi at her ancestral home in Allahabad.
Congress leaders believe that the demonetisation decision has wiped out all the gains the BJP had made by announcing the surgical strikes against terror camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
The September 29 surgical strikes, made public by the government through a press conference by the Director General of Military Operations, had changed the political equation in favour of the BJP, a section of the Congress leaders said.
Rahul had undertaken a nearly 3,500 km Kisan Yatra across Uttar Pradesh in a bid to rejuvenate the moribund organisation.
The Congress has been out of power in the state for the last 27 years. Priyanka has been taking active interest in planning the strategy for Uttar Pradesh, where the party is keen to make a mark and play the role of kingmaker.
In the 2012 elections, the Congress had won 28 seats in the 403-member state Assembly.
Of these, eight have either quit the party or have been expelled by the Congress for hobnobbing with rival parties.
DH News Service
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