Priyanka Gandhi enters politics months before India general election.

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Congress party supporters hope scion of India’s most powerful dynasty can boost campaign.

Priyanka Gandhi waves to party supporters during an election campaign rally in Uttar Pradesh, India. Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP
▼ Priyanka Gandhi, a scion of India’s most powerful dynasty who has rebuffed calls to enter politics for years, has been appointed as an official in the Congress party just months before India’s national polls.
The elevation of Gandhi, 47, is the latest chapter for the Nehru-Gandhi family that helped lead Indiato independence 71 years ago and which has ruled the country for much of the time since.
Less than three months before Indians are expected to begin voting in the world’s largest elections, commentators said her formal entry into politics could boost Congress party momentum and refresh a dynasty that some commentators have said is exhausted.
Gandhi, who also goes by the surname Vadra since her marriage, has been appointed as the party’s general-secretary for eastern Uttar Pradesh, overseeing an area containing one of the constituencies of the current prime minister, Narendra  Modi, in a state of more than 200 million people with the most parliamentary seats on offer.
She is considered a more charismatic campaigner than her brother, the current Congress party chief, Rahul Gandhi, with presence and an appearance that are often compared to that of her grandmother Indira Gandhi, a formidable and controversial prime minister, who was assassinated in 1984.
It is not clear if she will contest a seat herself. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Srinivas1939

Further proof that the congress is a family concern .Many expected her to get into active politics even ahead of her brother and hoped that she would be more level headed.Let us hope that her entry augurs well for the country.

dushazmi

what she can do in 3 months? Do she has magic broom.