Priyanka, Sandeep in line of fire after UP poll debacle

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Priyanka, Sandeep in line of fire after UP poll debacle

Wednesday, 23 March 2022 | PNS | Lucknow

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and her secretary Sandeep Singh find themselves in the line of fire for her party’s annihilation in the recent Assembly polls in which the party’s tally shrank to just two legislators.

State Congress leaders demanded the immediate removal of Priyanka claiming that since she was the in-charge of UP, she should also face the music for the party's pathetic poll show.In an open letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday, UP Congress leader Zeeshan Haider, demanded that Priyanka be removed as general secretary as the party fought UP elections under her leadership. Recently, Haider was expelled from the party for accusing Priyanka’s ‘servant’ for being responsible for the poll debacle. Haider stressed that as UP in-charge, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was equally responsible for the party's poor like former UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu, who was asked to quit after the results.

He said that it was unfair to only blame Lallu for the poll debacle.Jaider pointed out that after Congress' debacle in the 2012 Assembly elections, the then UP in-charge Digvijaya Singh and UP Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi had to resign from their positions. Soon after the results of Assembly polls were declared on March 10, Haider had raised the banner of revolt against the Congress brass in the state. Earlier he was the party's electronic media and Urdu press coordinator. Besides Haider, another expelled leader Konark Dixit, who recently led Congress workers to AICC and tried to meet Sonia Gandhi and apprise her of the reasons behind the defeat, also supported the removal of Priyanka.

 “Most people in the Congress are silent against Sandeep Singh and they will not say much before the review committee till Priyanka was in-charge. They know that Priyanka Gandhi blindly acted on the advice of her secretary and whosoever opens his/her mouth against him would be expelled,” alleged Dixit while blaming Priyanka’s personal secretary for the present imbroglio in the UP Congress. After the recent poll drubbing, the Congress brass formed a committee to find out the reason for the party's defeat in the state and former Union Minister Bhanwar Jitendra Singh has been asked to probe. Congress sources confirmed that among complaints reaching Singh, the maximum are about Priyanka Gandhi’s personal secretary Sandeep Singh. The leaders alleged that Priyanka took all decisions on Sandeep Singh’s advice which caused a lot of consternation among party leaders. It is also being said that most Congress national secretaries were also under the influence of Singh.Recently, Singh has been under fire from within the state Congress. In Lucknow, a woman leader before quitting the party to join the BJP had alleged that Singh had sold the ticket for Sarojininagar seat in Lucknow. Not only this, a case of attempt to life and molestation was also registered against Singh in Lucknow. ==========

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