‘Priyanka Gandhi ought to keep put in UP regardless of worst ever ballot efficiency’ 

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: With simply two seats and a 2 per cent vote share, the Congress fell to its lowest ever tally in Uttar Pradesh underneath Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as common secretary answerable for the state. Her excessive voltage marketing campaign and resolution to present 40 per cent tickets to ladies candidates, did not make a mark however social gathering leaders say she ought to proceed specializing in the state and keep put so as to revive the social gathering.        

Priyanka addressed over 160 rallies and over 40 roadshows in UP however she began specializing in the state in direction of the fag finish of elections. A senior social gathering chief mentioned that if she would have began touring and specializing in UP a 12 months and a half again, issues would have been just a little totally different.

She ought to maintain specializing in UP and proceed her reference to folks and that can assist the social gathering in 2024,  famous a Congress Rajya Sabha member.

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“It may be very disheartening that now we have come to 2 per cent vote share in a state we dominated for a number of years however Priyanka ought to proceed her work on the bottom and concentrate on the state. She ought to make Lucknow as her base and keep right here moderately than making episodic visits forward of elections,” mentioned a senior UP Congress chief.

There was no denial that the social gathering and Priyanka herself knew the social gathering’s destiny in meeting elections and saved talking that no matter outcomes, she’s going to keep put within the state. “We have just started the fight and we have to keep going with energy and strength,” she informed social gathering employees, a day earlier than the outcomes.

Like brother Rahul Gandhi, many leaders questioned her selection of her core staff which made many senior UP leaders really feel insulted and uncomfortable. Besides a number of senior leaders, Priyanka’s shut aide Lalithesh Tripathi, RPN Singh, Jitender Prasada, and Anu Tandon left the social gathering within the run-up to the meeting elections.

Her private secretary Sandeep Singh and UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lalu have been blamed for giving her floor suggestions that was removed from true.

“She needs to get a good team who have knowledge about the UP and understand the state. It is a tough task to revive the Congress as the party base has completely eroded and the election trends show that our loyal voters have also shifted this time,” mentioned a former union minister.