Making her much-awaited debut in the campaign for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joined her brother and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday in attacking Prime Minister Narenda Modi for his claim of being the “adopted son” of the State.
If Ms. Vadra argued that U.P. did not require an “outsider” to develop it, Mr. Gandhi told the Prime Minister that relationships were not built by just talk but they need nurturing and fulfilling of promises. The siblings attacked Mr. Modi for the distress caused to people by demonetisation.
“PM Modi said Varanasi has adopted him and since he is the son of U.P., he will develop U.P. I ask, does U.P. need to adopt an outsider? Does U.P. not have youth who are capable of developing it,” Ms. Vadra asked at a meeting at Maharajganj in Rae Bareli, the Lok Sabha constituency of her mother, Sonia Gandhi. Ms. Vadra went on to assert that Mr. Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, chief of the Samajwadi Party, were the two youths who would develop the most populous State.
