Congress general secretaries Gurudas Kamat, V K Hariprasad, Madhusudan Mistry, Shakil Ahmed, Digvijay Singh and Mukul Wasnik want to contest LS elections and want to be relieved from party work, sources said.
Several Congress leaders have been clamouring for Priyanka to join active politics, though she had been taking active part in the party work in Uttar Pradesh.
In January 2012, Priyanka Vadra had remarked, "when my brother will require me, I will come".