Rahul Gandhi: Congress won't to play on back foot
Mr Gandhi indicated as much when he said the Congress won't play on the back foot anywhere
New Delhi: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, considered for long the Congress’ “trump card”, made her formal entry into politics on Wednesday from Uttar Pradesh, indicating that the party will leave no stone unturned in its fight against the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party for 2019 general elections.
The bold organisational shake-up also saw Mr Gandhi anointing Mr Scindia as the general secretary in-charge for UP west and the party’s Karnataka in-charge K.C. Venugopal as the general secretary in-charge of organisation, replacing Ashok Gehlot.
The other bold message in Ms Vadra’s appointment as in-charge of UP east is that not only is Prime Minister Narendra Modi an MP from Varanasi, but UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath is also an ex-MP from Gorakhpur.
Mr Gandhi indicated as much when he said the Congress won’t “play on the back foot anywhere”. “We didn’t do it in Gujarat or anywhere else and we won’t do it here in UP,” he said. “I am not sending Priyanka and Jyotiraditya for just two months, but have given a mission to take ahead the true ideology of the Congress to take the poor and deprived sections of society along,” he said.