With the suspense over the candidature of Gandhi scions Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Congress bastions Amethi and Rae Bareli respectively still continuing, Priyanka is all set to join the party’s campaign for the lone Fatehpur Sikri Lok Sabha seat that the party is contesting in Uttar Pradesh in the third phase of the ongoing parliamentary elections.
Ten Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh are set to go to polls in the third phase on May 7. The Congress has got just one of these seats with its alliance partner Samajwadi Party contesting the remaining nine seats.
The third phase polls in UP are going to be the biggest litmus test for the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance as majority of these constituencies are in the Yadav heartland. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav is trying to retain the Mainpuri seat while Shivpal Singh Yadav’s son Aditya Yadav is trying to wrest the Budaun seat from Bharatiya Janata Party.
For the Congress, Ramnath Sikarwar is making all efforts to win the Fatehpur Sikri seat and bring some happiness in the party camp.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has made just one appearance so far in this election in Uttar Pradesh by taking out a roadshow in Saharanpur for party candidate Imran Masood, will once again join the campaign trail for the party by taking out another similar roadshow and hold a rally in Fatehpur Sikri to seek votes for Sikarwar.
Sikarwar is a Thakur and the Rajput community is not happy with the Bharatiya Janata Party this time, so Priyanka will try to attract this vote bank, especially as Sikarwar is the lone Rajput contesting from western UP.
Priyanka will reach Agra on coming Friday afternoon and straight away visit Fatehpur Sikri area to take out a roadshow in favour of the party candidate.
Sikarwar is engaged in a triangular fight with Bharatiya Janata Party’s sitting MP Rajkumar Chahar and Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Ram Niwas Sharma.
The fight for Sikarwar has become interesting in Fatehpur Sikri as the sitting BJP MP is facing a party rebel after sitting MLA of the party, Rajkumar Choudhary filed his papers as an independent candidate. Choudhary had sought BJP ticket for his son Rameshwar Choudhary from Fatehpur Sikri and after it was denied, he entered the fray as an independent making the fight difficult for Chahar as both belong to Jat community having sizable votes in the area.
The Brahmin candidate fielded by the BSP also poses trouble for Chahar as the community is also seen as the traditional vote bank of the BJP.
