Priyanka Gandhi praised her father and former prime minister, late Rajiv Gandhi as well as her brother Rahul Gandhi for developing Amethi and challenged BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi to come and see the development works in Amethi which is better than Gujarat.
Priyanka, who is campaigning in her brother’s constituency on Wednesday said,” Rahul has carried out development works in your constituency with fore sight. He has also helped the youth here get employment. Rahul wants to fulfill the dreams of his father Rajiv Gandhi,” she said.“Modi should come to Amethi to see the development work here which is far more better than Gujarat. Rahul has done a lot of work here, not because he wants to secure his political relationship but because you have given him a lot of love.
Other people come here, they do not feel for you. They come here just because it is Rahul’s constituency,”she asserted. She also said the credit must go to her father late Rajiv
Gandhi who brought telecom revolution. “There are mobile phones in your hands. Some credit must go to Rajivji for the same,” she said. Priyanka, however, blamed the Uttar Pradesh government for the bad condition of roads and poor electricity supply.” The state government should be held responsible as the Centre has sanctioned enough funds, but they did not cared to utilize it in Amethi,” she said while replying to the frequent complaints of the local people about the bad roads and poor electricity in the area. Priyanka addressed couple of meetings during her campaigning in Amethi on Wednesday and even went for a 1.5 kilometers long padyatra to woo the voters.
Priyanka Gandhi will continue her campaigning for Rahul Gandhi in Amethi for the third consecutive day on Thursday also. She will address 7 small public meetings and will go for padyatra from Tiloi to Fhursatganj, on Thursday. She will start her campaign from Kasimpur and will address meetings at Shahmau, Shankerganj, Raja Fatehpur, Shivratanganj and Simrauta.
Meanwhile, in order to boost the prospect of the Congress candidates in the remaining two phases of elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Party has drawn upon a massive campaigning programme in eastern parts of the state specially in Varanasi where BJP PM candidte Narendra Modi is in the fray. Spokesman of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC), Virendra Madan said that Congress president Sonia Gandhi will hold four election meetings while her son and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will hold 10 election meetings starting from Thursday. Sonia Gandhi will address election meetings at Shravasti and Faizabad on Thursday while on May 7 she will address another couple of meetings in Kushingar and Salempur. Rahul Gandhi will address four election meetings on May 5 at Kaiserganj, Gonda, Phulpur and Allahabad, three on the next day at
Robertsgang, Mirzapur and Jaunpur. On May 9, Rahul will address three meetings at Doomariaganj, Basgaon and Deoria.To strengthen the campaigning of the party candidate Ajay Rai in Varanasi, who is pitted against BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, Congress has deputed senior leaders like Gulam Nabi Azad and Satyabrat Chaturvedi to camp in the temple city till May 10. Madan said that Azad, Union cabinet minister, and Chaturvedi, CWC member, already reached Varanasi to facilitate Ajai Rai in the campaigning. Congress secretary and in-charge of UP Avinash Pandey is already camping in Varanasi. Congress has received a shot in its arm in Varanasi, after Quami Ekta Dal(QED) announced to support the Congress, on Monday.