After her meetings with party leaders in Lucknow during her three-day stay in the state capital last week, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will embark on a tour of eastern districts of Uttar Pradesh under her charge from February 21 by taking a holy dip at the Sangam in Prayagraj and later visiting Varanasi.
A senior Congress leader said in Lucknow on Monday that during Priyanka’s visit to Varanasi, she would visit the families of CRPF jawans martyred in Pulwama terror attack. She would also meet the families of those who died in the hooch tragedy.
Anand Bhawan, the ancestral house of Nehru-Gandhi clan in Prayagraj, has been decked up for Priyanka’s visit and preparations are in full swing at Sewa Dal camp in Kumbh Mela area.
Sources said that Priyanka would visit Prayagraj on February 21 and head to Varanasi for three- four days before attending her maiden Congress Working Committee meeting scheduled in Ahmedabad on February 28.
The Congress top gun’s Varanasi itinerary also includes a visit to Kashi Vishwanath temple with the possibility of a roadshow.
The newly-appointed AICC general secretaries incharge of east and west UP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Jyotiraditya Scindia, respectively, participated in a roadshow in Lucknow on February 11 and met leaders from constituencies assigned to them. After the meetings, Priyanka said that she was learning about the organisation.
Priyanka has been given charge of 41 constituencies in east UP and Scindia of 39 western constituencies for the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha Polls.
Earlier, a Congress release said that Priyanka met party representatives from Hamirpur, Jalaun and Jhansi in New Delhi and discussed ground realities with them.
Scindia would be meeting leaders from western UP districts including Mathura, Aligarh, Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddha Nagar in New Delhi on Tuesday.