Posters Pop up Urging Bigger Role for Priyanka in Congress

Posters Pop up Urging Bigger Role for Priyanka in Congress

BHOPAL: After Allahabad, which recently saw popping up of posters demanding bigger role for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in the Congress party, it was the turn of the general public here to witness similar posters, which were put up across two major interjections in the city.

The posters, which were put up by city-based Youth Congress leaders, have requested Priyanka to save the party by helping her mother and party president Sonia Gandhi and her brother and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

One of the Youth Congress leaders Rahul Singh Rathod, the man behind the posters, said that the youth across the country wanted to see Priyanka in a more active role. “Wherever she has gone, be it Amethi, Rai Bareli, we have won.

“In the recent Lok Sabha elections, we were reduced to just 44 MPs and now we need a charismatic and visionary leader like Priyanka who can rejuvenate the demoralised Congress cadre”, Rathod, who was earlier the general secretary of the Bhopal wing of the Youth Congress, said.

Another leader requesting anonymity said they had taken prior permission from senior state Congress leaders before putting up such posters.  “Our efforts to seek a bigger role for Priyanka has been appreciated

by the senior leaders. We do not want Rahul to be sidelined, but we just feel that if Priyanka too joins him, then we would be much better placed to take on the BJP”, the leader said.

Party spokesperson Pankaj Chaturvedi said over excited Congress workers were behind the posters. “Rahul has been leading the party in a very balanced manner and we all know that there were several reasons behind the

party’s unsatisfactory performance in the general elections. To hold only him responsible for the debacle is wrong. He has implemented many new ideas in the party, people should give him some time until these ideas show result”, Chaturvedi said.

When asked for his views on the posters, Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly and senior Congress leader Satyadev Katare said she was already a part of the party and has campaigned for the party in the past.

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