Hindustan Surkhiyan Desk: In a bid to step up Congress party’s poll preparedness ahead of the 2019 General elections, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, AICC general secretary and in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, is scheduled to begin her election campaign from Prayagraj today. Priyanka began her day by embarking on a 140 km-long ‘Ganga-yatra’ from Prayagraj to Varanasi. She is scheduled to board a steamer boat in the Manaiya area of Prayagraj at around 9:30 am.
She will also hold ‘Boat pe charcha’ with students. Priyanka reached party headquarters in Lucknow Sunday and held meeting with candidates as well as several delegations.
Priyanka, was welcomed by Congress workers amid chants of “Dahan Karo Modi Ki Lanka, Behen Priyanka Behen Priyanka”, tweeted an image of the room at Swaraj Bhawan where her grandmother and former prime minister Indira Gandhi was born. “While sitting at the Swaraj Bhawan I can see the room where my grandmother was born.Meanwhile, the BJP’s Central Election Committee (CEC) which was scheduled to meet for a second time today has cancelled the meeting on the account of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’ death. The party is yet to release its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. According to party sources, the CEC, in its marathon meet yesterday, had cleared names of around 100 candidates.
