Priyanka talks tough with Cong workers; says they have let the party down
Politics | June 13, 2019 21:30 ISTPriyanka Gandhi Vadra told the party workers that they let down the party in the Lok Sabha polls.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra told the party workers that they let down the party in the Lok Sabha polls.
Priyanka Gandhi said that the Congress' humiliating performance in Uttar Pradesh in the recently-concluded 2019 General election was the handiwork of some unenthusiastic party level workers.
While party leaders, who held day-long deliberations with the Congress General Secretary in-charge of eastern part of the state, said that the party's revival was sure if Gandhi was projected as Chief Minister in 2022.
Party leaders, who met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi in Bhuyemau Guest house in Rae Bareli on Wednesday, said that the party should make an effort to stand on its own feet.
The cricketer-turned-politician also posted a picture in which he has seen along with Rahul Gandhi, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and senior leader Ahmed Patel.
The Congress general secretary in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh will visit Raebareli on Tuesday evening. She is also scheduled to attend review meetings on Wednesday to discuss the reasons behind party's poor performance in the general elections in the state.
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UP Congress Committee member Rajiv Singh said, "The review will take place even at village level. The members of the review team will hold meetings with heads of blocks and panchayat."
Congress President Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have told leaders at the Congress Working Committee meeting on Saturday that he was ready to carry the ideological battle against the BJP-RSS but does not want to be bogged down by routine matters and they should chose a new party chief from outside the Nehru-Gandhi family.
Led by Rahul's sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, a host of party leaders met the angry and sulking Congress President at his residence through the day, amid reports that he had conveyed to them that he could at best lead the party in Parliament as the chief of Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP).
Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, was granted anticipatory bail by a trial court here on April 1.
Issuing a recorded audio message for Congress workers, she said they should not fall prey to "rumours and exit poll trends which are being promoted to undermine the spirits of Congress persons."
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