Do Congress Plans For UP Change Game For Team Mayawati? What Insiders Say | Read

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's entrance into politics from Uttar Pradesh has turned the straight contest in the state between the BJP and the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav alliance into a three-cornered one. The question everyone is asking now is whether the entry of an invigorated Congress would play into the BJP's hand. Snubbed by the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav combine -- which left the Congress out of the alliance in the state -- Rahul Gandhi had announced that the party will contest all 80 Lok Sabha seats. Days later, he appointed his sister the in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh and longtime aide Jyotiraditya Scindia in-charge of the west. The party, he said, will not "play on backfoot".