New Delhi:
Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is holding a meeting to review the party’s decimation in the politically crucial Uttar Pradesh. The 50-year-old was put in charge of Uttar Pradesh soon after she joined politics and tasked with building the party from ground up. Four years down the line, despite her high voltage “Ladki hoon lad sakti hoon” (I am a girl and can fight) campaign, the party managed to get only two seats in the state, down from seven in 2017. Its vote share has shrunk to just 2.5 per cent.
The Congress general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh is at the party’s war room at Delhi’s Gurdwara Rakabganj Road. She is chairing a meeting, which is being attended by the top state leaders of the party.
The meeting comes two days after Ms Gandhi Vadra presented her report on the rout in the five states where elections were held at a meeting of the Working Committee, the party’s top decision-making body.
At the meeting, her mother and the party’s interim chief Sonia Gandhi had offered to resign in view of the crushing defeat. The offer was not accepted and it was decided to prepare for the party’s internal elections after the ongoing budget session of parliament.
