Aiming to revive the beleaguered party in the politically significant Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has continued her forays into the state in the New Year after going into action in the last half of 2019.
Since the beginning of 2020, Priyanka has been sending greeting cards to lakhs of people of the state, with the Preamble of the Indian Constitution printed on one side. The cards are being sent to intellectuals, writers, poets, journalists and social workers of UP.
Sources in the Congress said in Lucknow on Friday that the party planned to send around five lakh greeting cards to the people in UP and of these, 50,000 cards had been sent by post.
The sources further claimed that the plan of sending greeting cards was prepared much in advance and the main task was to gather addresses of intellectuals and social workers across the state. He said addresses of journalists were gathered by district committees.
Ever since the Congress took up cudgels against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, Priyanka has spoken about the Preamble of the Constitution from different fora several times.
At the Congress rally at Mahatma Gandhi’s samadhi at Raj Ghat in Delhi, Priyanka had read the Preamble in her address and later, on Congress Foundation Day function at UPCC headquarters in Lucknow, she had again read it while interacting with party workers.
Justifying Priyanka’s move, UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu said that the maximum numbers of attacks on the Constitution were witnessed during the present Bharatiya Janata Party regime at the Centre.
“At such a crucial juncture, it was imperative to make people aware of the Constitution and that is why Priyankaji decided to initiate the move. Sending New Year greetings along with the Preamble is an effort to inform people about the Constitution as well,” he said.