U.P. Cong. calendar featuring Priyanka Gandhi fuels speculation

The move raises the question whether the Congress is going to project her as the party’s Chief Ministerial face to take on the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government ahead of next year’s U.P. Assembly election.

At a time when the Congress is going through a phase of uncertainty with regard to its central leadership, a 2021 calendar prepared by the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) can become a talking point.

Photographs of party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in charge of Uttar Pradesh, has been put up on every page of the 12-page calendar.

The move raises the question whether the Congress is going to project Ms. Vadra as the party’s Chief Ministerial face to take on the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in the State ahead of next year’s U.P. Assembly election.

An AICC functionary, who did not wish to be named, played it down by pointing out that a similar calendar with Rahul Gandhi’s photos was prepared for…

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