Priyanka Gandhi: India Congress leader to contest election

Priyanka Gandhi, girl of India’s key opposition Congress head Rahul Gandhi, is set to battle her primary election, ending years of expectation by her supporters.

Ms Gandhi is a son of the Nehru- Gandhi relatives, India’s most popular political dynasty, and her political debut may be carefully watched.

After her nephew relinquishes it, the 52-year-old may run for the Wayanad seats in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

A victory for Ms. Gandhi may result in the inclusion of all three Gandhi community members in the American congress.

Her family Sonia Gandhi, past president of the Congress party, is an MP in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the legislature.

In the new legislative elections, her brother, Mr. Gandhi, won both the Rae Bareli seats in Wayanad and Uttar Pradesh.

According to Indian law, Mr. Gandhi, who has been an MP for Wayanad since 2019, is resigning because he can only control one legislative seat. On Monday, he thanked the citizens of Wayanad for their “love, love and support”.

Although a day for the by-election has not yet been announced, Ms. Gandhi claims she is” not frightened at all.”

” I am very happy to be able to represent Wayanad and I will not let them feel his]Rahul Gandhi’s ] absence”, she said on Monday. ” I did work hard and try my best to be a great representative and make everyone happy.”

The by-election may indicate the conclusion of a ten-decade wait for Congress supporters to learn about Ms. Gandhi’s involvement in democratic politics.

Journalist Javed Ansari, who has reported on the Congress party for years, told BBC Hindi that he was not surprised by the news.

” I think it was a question of when]she would contest ] and not if”, he said.

Ms. Gandhi has long been viewed as the more well-liked of the Gandhi sisters, with many blaming her brother’s “lacklustre administration” for a number of congressional defeats between 2014 and 2019.

People have compared Ms. Gandhi’s similarities to her mother and former prime minister Indira Gandhi from a young age.

From the late 1990s, Ms. Gandhi constantly participated in her mother’s election campaigns. She even fought for her nephew when he began to run for office in 2004.

Top figures have praised her social skills and ability to communicate effectively.

Prior to the 2019 general election, Ms. Gandhi was appointed to lead the Congress battle in the southeast region of Uttar Pradesh condition.

Ms. Gandhi was not to blame for the Congress’s subsequent performance in the state legislature elections in 2022. Top party leaders claimed that the performance did not accurately reflect her job and was in line with their objectives.

Since taking over the group’s efforts in some state elections, Ms. Gandhi was appointed Congress ‘ public minister in 2019.

In the wake of some of the state’s individual lawmakers ‘ revolution, party leaders claim that she has played a key role in stabilizing the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh this year.

She also spearheaded the Congress’s battle in Uttar Pradesh, where criticism parties did remarkably well, and particularly in Amethi and Rae Bareli’s Gandhi-family bastions.

She held Rahul’s castle, according to Mr. Ansari, and that is how he had plan across the nation.

If Ms. Gandhi is elected, it would be interesting to see the sisters working in congress up, according to political critic Neerja Chowdhury.

” Privately, I think Priyanka is savvier of the two. She” thinks on her feet and has a clearer than his language,” she said, adding that she will be “watched quite carefully.”

Keralans and members of the Congress have expressed joy over the possibility of having Ms. Gandhi as a Wayanad MP.

ND Ayyappan, president of the party committee in the district, said: “It indicates that the family will continue its ties with the people of Wayanad.”

In response to the announcement of Ms. Gandhi’s electoral debut, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) has criticised dynastic politics.

” Congress is certainly a group but a home business”, BJP head Shehzad Poonawalla said.

However, Annie Raja, a member of the Communist Party of India ( CPI), who had previously challenged Mr. Gandhi in Wayanad in the most recent election, praised her announcement of candidacy.

Ms Raja, who lost the election by a ratio of over 360, 000 vote, did not confirm whether she would move against Ms Gandhi in the by- vote.

But she said,” We need more and more women in parliament”.