Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra kicked off her party's campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh today by offering prayers at the Lette Hanuman temple near Sangam. During her three-day visit, Ms Gandhi will cover a distance of 100-km by boat in Ganga from Allahabad to Varanasi -- the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hopping from one temple to another.
Ms Gandhi Ganga cruise is being seen by political observers as an effort to navigate her party out of a nearly three-decade long wilderness in the state. The Congress general secretary in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh offered prayers on the banks of Sangam -- a confluence of rivers Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati.
Ms Gandhi commenced her journey from Prayagraj today and will conclude at Varanasi's Assi Ghat and Dashashwamedh ghat on Wednesday evening. The Congress general secretary will be ending her trip in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency, a day before the festival of Holi.
Here are the highlights of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019:
- Youth have no jobs. Women feel unsafe. Low wages for aanganwaadis. People are upset all around. You aren't head. You voice is muzzled whenever you raise it. You make netas take the podium and sit on the floor yourselves, change this habit. Nation doesn't belong to one person, that you have to beg for your rights. The weak need to be helped. You were promised 2 crore jobs, what happened?
- Did PM pay a visit? But he has toured the entire globe. This election is about you. 4-5 people are ruling the nation, they have all control over administration, they think they are 'know-it-all(s)', that the public lacks sense. They want to destroy institutions. No nation can function like this.
Congress General Secretary UP-East Priyanka Gandhi Vadra offers prayers at Bade Hanuman temple in Prayagraj. pic.twitter.com/3OUNPRY7sl
- ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) March 18, 2019
