Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday met Congress’ general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad adding fuel to growing speculation about her assuming a bigger role in UP ahead of the 2017 Assembly polls in the state.
As per sources in the party, Priyanka is said to have had an hour-long meeting with Azad at his residence. Suggestions are that the two discussed her role in the party ahead of the Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh next year.
According to agency reports, Priyanka may assume an active and bigger role for Congress in UP and may be projected as its top campaigner for the state.
Congress has so far remained tight-lipped on her role but several party leaders have batted for her taking up a bigger role and canvassing for the party all over the state.
Priyanka has earlier campaigned in Rae Bareli and Amethi parliamentary constituencies, represented by her mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi and brother and party Vice President Rahul Gandhi, respectively.
Azad had held meetings with Sonia and Rahul in the past few days over the party’s poll strategy in UP. He has favoured Priyanka becoming pro-active and campaigning throughout the state.
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor, who has been roped in by Congress to help and assist the party in Uttar Pradesh, has reportedly suggested Priyanka’s name for leading the party in the state.
There has been divergence of opinion in Congress over Priyanka being made the top campaigner in Uttar Pradesh with a section insisting that she should canvass support for the party from all over the country in the next Lok Sabha polls and should not focus on a state poll.
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