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According to senior Congress leaders from Maharashtra, Priyanka’s entry into active politics will give a fresh lease of life to the party.

The Congress has finally decided to give larger role to Priyanka Gandhi as she will be actively campaigning for next year’s Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. Senior Congress leaders from Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan, Ashok Chavan, Sushil Kumar Shinde had urged Congress President Sonia Gandhi to project Priyanka as the face of UP assembly polls. Ever since Congress had received severe drubbing in the recently concluded assembly polls held in four states there was growing dissent within the party. Some leaders had even threatened to quit the party. Former state president of Congress said that right now Congress is in dire need of a major makeover and it is the right time to pass the baton to Priyanka who is known to connect better with the masses. According to senior Congress leaders, Priyanka’s entry into active politics will give a fresh lease of life to the party which badly needs a makeover after suffering massive debacle in assembly polls. Priyanka will venture out of Rae Bareli and Amethi, where she has campaigned for Congress in the past, and hold 150 rallies across UP though it remains unclear whether she will be its chief ministerial candidate.

According to sources, “Many senior leaders have lost faith in the leadership of Rahul Gandhi after Congress received severe drubbing in assembly polls. According to them, Rahul has failed to give a proper direction to the party which has created more confusion among party cadre workers. Their morale has hit an all-time low and many of them are complaining that there is lack of coordination between party workers and senior leadership.”
“A senior Congress leader had recently threatened to quit the Congress after it was planning to contest the UP assembly polls under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi. After Sonia Gandhi’s intervention he had withdrawn his resignation. Like him there are many Congress leaders who may turn rebel if Rahul Gandhi is given the charge of campaigning in UP election,” said a leader from Congress party on the condition of anonymity.

On the other hand, Congress can’t rely on its alliance partner NCP which has a tendency to align with other parties whenever there is a change in political equation in state and centre. NCP also had offered outside support to BJP in Maharashtra even though both parties follow different ideologies. To make matters worse, Sonia Gandhi can’t nominate senior Congress leaders to campaign for the UP polls as it may lead to rift within the party.

Congress has had a dismal performance in Uttar Pradesh so far. In the last assembly polls, Congress had won just 28 of the 403 seats in the state. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the party had secured only two seats in UP with only Sonia and Rahul emerging victorious.

On the other hand, BJP said that Congress is bringing Priyanka Gandhi as it had lost faith in the leadership of Rahul Gandhi. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said, “Congress’s attempt to bring in Priyanka shows that Rahul Gandhi has failed. If Rahul had succeeded that they would not have been called Priyanka. It makes three things clear. One is that the Congress can never come out of its family, they even want leadership in Gandhi family.”

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