Smt. Priyanka Gandhi
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is an Indian politician born on 12 January 1972 and is the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee in-charge of Uttar Pradesh. She is the daughter of former Indian Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, sister of Rahul Gandhi, and granddaughter of Feroze and Indira Gandhi, making her a member of the politically prominent Nehru-Gandhi family. She is also a trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.
Priyanka Gandhi's early life
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was born on 12 January 1972 at the Holy Family Hospital in Delhi to former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi – who would later become President of the Indian National Congress, as the younger of their two children. His elder brother Rahul Gandhi is an MP from Wayanad, Kerala. She is the granddaughter of former and first female Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi and freedom fighter and politician Feroze Gandhi, and great-granddaughter of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamala Nehru.
Priyanka Gandhi did her schooling at Welham Girls School in Dehradun until 1984. Subsequently, both Rahul and Priyanka were shifted to day schools in Delhi due to security reasons. After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, due to constant terrorist threats, both he and his brother Rahul were home-schooled. Later she joined the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Delhi. Received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Jesus and Mary College of Delhi University and later a master’s degree in Buddhist studies in 2010. After being asked to vacate the government residence in Lodhi Estate, Priyanka Vadra shifted to Gurugram.
Education
In 1997, Gandhi married Delhi-based businessman Robert Vadra. The couple has two children. The marriage took place on 18 February 1997 in a Hindu ceremony at the Gandhi residence, 10 Janpath. She is a follower of Buddhism and practices Vipassana. Priyanka Vadra is also an amateur radio operator with the call sign VU2PGY.
Political Career
Priyanka Gandhi ji regularly visited her mother and brother’s constituencies, Rae Bareli and Amethi, where she contacted the people directly. In the 2004 Indian general election, she was her mother’s campaign manager and helped oversee her brother Rahul Gandhi’s campaign. In the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, while Rahul Gandhi managed the statewide campaign, he focused on ten seats in the Amethi-Raebareli region, spending two weeks trying to calm considerable infighting within party workers over seat allocation. .
Active Politics and AICC General Secretary
On 23 January 2019, Priyanka Gandhi officially entered politics, being appointed Congress general secretary in-charge of the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh. He was appointed General Secretary in-charge of entire Uttar Pradesh on 11 September 2020. In October 2021, Gandhi was detained by police, who cited restrictions on gatherings, while she was reportedly traveling to Agra to meet the family members of a man. Died in police custody.
2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections
Priyanka Gandhi launched the Congress party’s Uttar Pradesh election campaign from Barabanki on 23 October 2021. The Congress party contested the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections under the leadership of Gandhi, but lost extensively.
Early Years
Even though Gandhi Vadra had resisted direct involvement in politics in the years before her official entry into politics in 2019, she played an active role in the election campaign for her mother and brother in general and in the assembly elections. He regularly visited his mother’s and brother’s constituencies, Rae Bareli and Amethi, where he contacted the people directly, a role that made him a popular figure in the constituency with mass support, and the electoral success in Amethi. Gave the slogan, “Amethi ka danka, bitiya Priyanka” (a clarion call from Amethi is for Priyanka [to stand in the elections].) [18] She successfully established her reputation as a good organizer and level-headed leader.
Priyanka Gandhi is believed to be her mother’s “chief advisor on political matters” and has said that she wrote speeches for her mother’s first campaign in the Indian general election in 2004, was her mother’s campaign manager, and helped her Helped in monitoring the campaign of brother Rahul Gandhi.
In the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, 2007, while Rahul Gandhi managed the statewide campaign, he focused on ten seats in the Amethi-Raebareli region, spending two weeks trying to calm considerable infighting within party workers over seat allocation. .
Formal Entry Into Politics
Priyank Gandhi formally entered politics after being appointed AICC general secretary in-charge of the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh on 23 January 2019, and then as general secretary in-charge of entire Uttar Pradesh on 11 September 2020, ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. . , During this period, he took up a number of issues as an opposition leader and led several protests, again against the BJP, which rules the state as well as the central government, against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act. Farmers protesting against the three farm laws, Hathras rape victim’s family killed on Delhi borders by a speeding SUV allegedly driven by a Union Minister’s son in UP Families of farmers gone.
In October 2021, Gandhi was detained twice by the UP Police. The first arrest came after his visit to Lakhimpur Kheri in western UP, where eight people were killed after a clash between protesting farmers and the convoy of Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son. He and several other party leaders were detained at a PAC guest house in Sitapur, which was being used as a temporary jail to keep them for more than 50 hours. The second detention site is in Agra district, where UP Police detained her citing ban on gatherings while she was on her way to Agra to meet family members of a man who allegedly died in police custody. It was done.
