Team News Riveting
Bhopal, September 24
They were once very close to Jyotiradtiya Scindia; now they would campaign against him in Madhya Pradesh by-election.
While Congress leader Sachin Pilot would take on his former party colleague Jyotiradtiya Scindia, AICC general secretary in-charge of UP Priyanka Gandhi would join the league.
Interestingly, Scindia had once been an adviser to Priyanka and was considered an insider in her coterie. With junior Pilot also, the junior Scindia has a good rapport.
The senior leaders in the party had asked the former Rajasthan deputy Chief Minister to campaign in the Gwalior-Chambal region against his old friend Scindia.
Meanwhile former public relations minister and senior Congress leader PC Sharma said that Gandhi is expected to visit Ma Pitambara Peeth, a temple in MP’s Datiya district.
She is likely to interact with the public and locals in nearby districts including Datiya, Bhind, Morena, and Gwalior besides others. According to sources, Priyanka is expected to campaign at six seats in the region considered to be a Scindia bastion.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had played down Priyanka’s campaign trail and said the Congress party was going through a leadership crisis and had imported leaders. Urban Administration and Development minister Bhupendra Singh said that the Congress lost wherever Priyanka Gandhi went for campaigning.
The saffron party has also repeatedly claimed that after Scindia’s exit from Congress, the grand old party had no prominent leader in the Gwalior region who could match the ‘popularity of Scindia’.
A total of 28 seats in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly will be going to the mid-term polls, of which 16 are in the Gwalior-Chambal region.
