Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is predicted in Lucknow lastly on July 16 to launch the ballot marketing campaign of the Congress occasion with simply six months left for the elections. This might be over one-and-a-half years after she final visited the UP capital the place the Congress is hoping for a revival of its electoral fortunes.
However is it a case of too little, too late? Prashant Kishor, the ballot strategist who met Rahul Gandhi in Delhi on Tuesday and had first pitched because the Congress strategist then for Priyanka to be projected because the occasion’s chief ministerial face in 2017 elections in Uttar Pradesh, would maybe know greatest.
Congress didn’t take Kishor’s bait then, Priyanka remained within the back-room, and the Congress provided the late Shiela Dikshit because the CM face earlier than dropping her mid-way the marketing campaign because it stitched an alliance with Samajwadi Occasion.
Priyanka was lastly ‘launched’ in Uttar Pradesh proper forward of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, when after a mega street present in Lucknow along with her, Rahul Gandhi mentioned on the Congress workplace in Lucknow that whereas the occasion had modest expectations in UP in 2019, the actual hope the occasion had was for the 2022 meeting elections. Because it turned out, 2019 too was a catastrophe for Congress in UP as Rahul misplaced from Amethi, Priyanka didn’t contest and the one seat Congress gained was Sonia Gandhi’s Rae Bareli.
After that catastrophe, Priyanka didn’t select to remain put in Lucknow however most popular parachute visits to the state. Like going to Sonbhadra after the killing of tribals two years in the past, her final go to to Lucknow in December 2019 to fulfill these injured within the anti-CAA protests, her go to to Hathras final October to fulfill the household of a homicide sufferer and a sequence of Kisan Mahapanchayats she did in West UP in February-March this yr moreover taking a dip within the Sangam in Prayagraj on February 11. She is going to now go to UP on July 16, over 4 months after her final go to to the state on March 7.
In political circles of Lucknow, the opposite main events hardly connect any significance to Priyanka’s upcoming go to, with one senior BJP chief within the state telling News18 that that is maybe the third time not too long ago that the Congress chief has rescheduled even her current journey.
The Congress occasion was abuzz a yr in the past amidst hypothesis that Priyanka may shift base to Lucknow until the elections. Home of a former Congress chief was additionally ready for her longer keep. However that didn’t occur as effectively amidst Covid.
Priyanka’s entry to Lucknow now comes at an much more precarious time for the occasion because it has fared disastrously within the current Zila Panchayat Chief and Block President Polls, dropping even in its solely stronghold of Rae Bareli. Whereas Congress occasion members in UP venture her because the ‘chief ministerial face’ of the occasion, there is no such thing as a such declaration from the chief herself and it’s even not clear if she wish to ship a message to the cadre by leaping into the electoral area and contesting an MLA seat within the upcoming elections. Many political consultants in UP are betting on that not occurring.
Ultimately, it could find yourself a case of Priyanka’s entry in Lucknow already being too late.
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