Rahul responds to Priyanka contesting polls

April 21, 2019 17:36

There have been many calls within the Congress asking Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to contest the national elections from Uttar Pradesh. Priyanka Gandhi, who has been tasked to lead the partys campaign in eastern UP, hasnt spoken her mind on the demand and left it to her brother and party chief Rahul Gandhi to take the call.

Lets see. Let there be some suspense for now! he said in an interview to Hindustan, a sister publication of Hindustan Times.

On previous occasions, Rahul Gandhi has made it clear that the primary goal that he had set for sister Priyanka wasnt the 2019 Lok Sabha elections but to get the party in fighting shape and win the 2022 UP state elections.

But Priyanka Gandhi has been getting bundles of requests from party workers to take the poll plunge.

Like when she was interacting with party workers in mother Sonia Gandhis Rae Bareli constituency last month. Priyanka, who had been asked to contest the election from Rae Bareli, shot back smiling: Why not Varanasi.

That riposte had reignited buzz around her poll plunge, and a possibility that she might face off with Prime Minister Narendra Modi who represents the te

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