NEW DELHI: Even as Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra kicked off her poll campaign for Madhya Pradesh on Monday and announced five guarantees for the state, party sources said that she is likely to play a bigger role in the party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
According to party sources, Priyanka Gandhi, who campaigned aggressively in Himachal Pradesh last year and in Karnataka earlier this year, will keep on campaigning for the party in the poll bound states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Rajasthan.
Priyanka Gandhi has already addressed a public meeting in Telangana’s Hyderabad on May 8. She had targeted the Bharath Rashtra Samithi government in the state led by Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao over unemployment and several other issues during her first public meeting in the southern state. On Monday, she also kicked off her first public meeting in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh and announced the five guarantees in the state which included Rs 1500 per month to women, LPG cylinder for Rs 500, 100 units of free electricity and only half the price till 200 units, implementation of the old pension scheme and restarting the farm loan waiver scheme.
A source cited the success in Himachal Pradesh, where Priyanka Gandhi single handedly pulled off the election in favour of the party against the mighty BJP where Prime Minister Narendra Modi also campaigned aggressively. The victory in the hill state has helped her to create her own space in the party because during the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections former party chief Rahul Gandhi was busy in the Bharat Jodo Yatra and she led from the front, the source said. It was Priyanka Gandhi who made the slogan ‘Aa rahi hai Congress’ popular and her guarantee of the implementation of OPS, an important issue in the hill state during the polls, connected with the people, the source added. (IANS)
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