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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was on Saturday named chairperson of the Congress party’s screening committee for Assam, where assembly elections are scheduled later this year.
This is the first organizational task assigned to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra after her role as general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh of the All India Congress Committee. Congress party lost the UP elections in 2022 and could win only two seats. Since then she has remained the general secretary without any specific assignment, even as she became a Lok Sabha member from Wayanad in 2024.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s name has been included in the list of leaders named in the Congress party’s screening committees for shortlisting party candidates for poll-bound states.
Madhusudan Mistry has been made the chairman of the screening committee for Kerala, TS Singh Deo as the head of the panel for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and BK Hariprasad as the head of the panel for West Bengal.
The candidates shortlisted by the screening committees in consultation with the respective State Congress Committees will be discussed by the Congress Central Election Committee, which makes the final selection of party candidates.
Assembly elections will be held this year in Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Puducherry.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been in the news for quite some time now, especially after her speeches in Parliament and her meeting with Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari After small talk in the House about his constituency; And a joke he shared with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the customary tea after parliament session The program organized by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has increased the buzz around him.
Some reports suggested Priyanka Vadra Being the sole General Secretary of the AICC without any responsibility, there were discussions that he should be given a more prominent role within the party. Many within and outside the party also compared his speeches in Parliament to those of his brother Rahul Gandhi.
Priyanka Gandhi’s political career
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is an MP from Wayanad, Kerala and AICC general secretary.
For many years before becoming an MP, she stayed away from formal politics and worked mainly as a campaigner and strategist for the Congress Party. However, they played important roles in Amethi and Rae BareliGandhi’s bastion and managed campaigns for Sonia and Rahul Gandhi.
He entered active politics before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and many described him as the trump card of the Congress party ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
In January 2019, Priyanka Gandhi was appointed as the General Secretary (East Uttar Pradesh). His entry was seen as an attempt to revive the Congress’s fortunes in UP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
But Congress party lost the Lok Sabha elections. The BJP-led NDA returned to power with an overwhelming majority. In UP, Congress Only one seat was won by Sonia Gandhi in Rae Bareli. Rahul Gandhi lost the family bastion Amethi to Smriti Irani in 2019.
Before the 2022 assembly elections, Priyanka Vadra was made in-charge of Uttar Pradesh. The party won only two out of 403 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
Priyanka Gandhi campaigned in the 2024 general elections. He took the electoral plunge and contested the elections By-election on Wayanad seatThe seat was vacated by his brother Rahul Gandhi who won two seats – Wayanad and Rae Bareli, The former Wayanad MP decided to retain the Rae Bareli seat,
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