The Congress party’s star-campaigner Priyanka Gandhi Vadra made her debut speech during the ongoing UP Assembly polls on Friday, attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “adopted son” remark, asking if the State really needed any leader from outside when it has its own sons.
“The PM Modi had earlier too said Varanasi has adopted me and I am like a son for it and will develop it...I felt, does UP need to adopt anyone from outside,” she said to a cheering crowd in the lok Sabha constituency of her mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
“Modiji, does the State need to adopt anyone from outsideIJ Is there no youth hereIJ...You have two such youth in Rahulji and Akhileshji before you who have UP in their hearts and mind,” Priyanka said at a gathering.
In her brief but impassioned speech, she said, “No outside leader is required. Every single youth of the State can become a leader.... Every single youth here will work for UP and make the State progress by leaps and bounds. This is the wish of Rahulji and Akhileshji.”
Making an appeal to the voters, she said, “Please ensure the alliance’s victory.”
Appealing for success of the SP-Congress alliance, Priyanka asked voters to identify those who want to work for them. “Strengthen this alliance so that the State is strengthened and developed,” he said.
The Congress star campaigner exuded confidence that the alliance will win 300 of the 403 seats in these elections.
Under the alliance, SP has left 105 seats for Congress. “I want to say a lot of hollow promises have been made...A lot of years have passed...Ask people Varanasi,” said Priyanka, adding Modi has been the PM for the past three years but “What has been doneIJ”
“Ask people of Amethi as to how Rajiv Gandhi did what he decided when he was the Prime Minister,” she said. Referring to Modi’s speeches in which he addresses women in the crowd as ‘sisters’ and ‘mothers’, Priyanka said there is no need to connect with them only through a relation. “If he has to say anything, he should look into your eyes,” she said.
“If he has to tell anything, he should tell who has committed atrocity in the past six months on our daughters, sisters and women,” she said.