Lok Sabha elections 2024: Congress national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday (May 9) took a veiled attack on All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi.
Priyanka Gandhi spoke to the media and said, "I am telling you again and again. Asaduddin Owaisi is working directly with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Wherever the BJP needs him to field someone to push back other parties, he is doing it. It has become very clear in Telangana elections."
She added that it has become very clear that the Hyderabad Member of Parliament (MP) is working with the saffron party in Telangana polls.
Priyanka pays tribute to martyrs at Kisan Shaheed Memorial
"Today, I paid tribute to the martyrs at the Kisan Shaheed Memorial in Munshiganj area of Raebareli," Priyanka posted on X.
In 1921, the British government fired bullets on the farmers to suppress the farmers' movement led by Baba Ramchandra Ji and Madari Pasi Ji. Hundreds of farmers were martyred. After this, Pandit Motilal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru Ji reached Raebareli and met the affected farmers. Nehru Ji was arrested for the first time in this movement.
"This Martyr's Memorial is a symbol of the struggle, martyrdom, and freedom movement of the farmers of our country, and the hundred-year-old relationship of the Congress with Rae Bareli. I salute to the great martyrs,' she added on X.
BJP's Rae Bareli candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh takes a jibe at Congress's Amethi pick
The BJP's Rae Bareli candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh has accused the Gandhi family of harbouring hatred for Rae Bareli-Amethi, and asked why they did not field a local leader but opted for "Priyanka Gandhi's clerk" to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Amethi.
Singh, who is taking on Rahul Gandhi in a high-profile electoral contest here, also claimed that the Gandhi scion will lose by a bigger margin than his mother Sonia Gandhi had won in the 2019 polls. Sonia Gandhi had beaten Singh in 2019 by over 1,67,000 votes. However, this was the lowest margin of victory that Sonia Gandhi has had in the five elections, including a bypoll, that she has fought from the constituency.
"People have great trust in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and under his leadership, the country as well as the hard-earned income of the people is safe. People of Rae Bareli also trust the prime minister," Singh told PTI in an interview here.
"So, in such a scenario, I don't think the Congress candidate will be able to hold his ground before the BJP candidate in Rae Bareli," he said.
Asked about Priyanka Gandhi Vadra camping in Rae Bareli and campaigning for her brother Rahul, Singh said it could be a topic of discussion for media people who have come from outside but her camping here was a non-issue for the people of Rae Bareli.
"In 2022 assembly polls, she stayed here and asked for votes in every nook and corner, but in all the assembly seats Priyanka Gandhi camped here and ran around, about 16,000 votes were bagged in assembly segments. Is it the same Priyanka Gandhi?" he said, taking a swipe at the Congress general secretary.
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