Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday, 28 March, sent ripples across the political spectrum after her swift riposte, "Why not Varanasi?" – the Lok Sabha seat of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Her reaction came in response to the party workers' request to contest the election from mother Sonia Gandhi's parliamentary constituency, Raebareli.
Her remark came at an interactive meeting with party booth workers, block presidents, gram panchayat and nagar panchayat heads at a guest house in UP’s Raebareli, about 6 km from the district headquarters.
As Gandhi, the party in-charge for eastern Uttar Pradesh, told the gathering that her mother was tense as she could not come among them, some workers asked her to contest from Raebareli instead.
At this, she smilingly said: "Why not Varanasi?"