Priyanka Kickstarts Cong`s LS campaign |
With the announcement of the election schedule, battle lines have been drawn, and the real image of a leader came to fore when Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in her first rally as a Congress leader, addressed an audience in Gandhinagar which is the capital of Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s home state, Gujarat. Her first appeal to the people of Gujarat was: "Your vote is your weapon. Make the right decision, ask the right questions." She clearly stated that the April-May general election were "nothing less" than the Independence movement. Dressed in a white and blue sari, she iterated - "Think and decide - those who talk big in front of you, where are the jobs they promised? What about the Rs. 15 lakh in every bank account that they talked about? What about women`s safety?" Her striking resemblance to her grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was evident as Giant cutouts of her grandmother were placed at the venue in Gandhinagar reminding the crowd of the lineage. Priyanka Gandhi`s first-ever political rally outside the Gandhi family constituencies in Uttar Pradesh followed her debut in the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting earlier on tuesday. After years of campaigning in her brother Rahul Gandhi`s Amethi and mother Sonia Gandhi`s Raebareli in UP, this was her first election outing.
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