Congress' Priyanka Gandhi's election campaign marathon in this Lok Sabha poll season marked 108 public meetings and roadshows, more than 100 media bytes. Her speeches garnered adequate attention in this election as she shattered the Prime Minister and the Bharatiya Janata Party's efforts to misdirect the narrative, the party said.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. File Photos.
Congress' star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi's election campaign marathon in this Lok Sabha poll season marked 108 public meetings and roadshows, more than 100 media bytes, one television interview and five print interviews, the Congress part said. The election campaign for the Congress Party was spread over 55 days before the election campaigns oficially ended on Thursday.
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Gandhi's dialogue, conversation style, gentleness, simplicity, and humility received much praise from the public during the campaign. Priyanka Gandhi, who campaigned in 16 states and one union territory, hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attack on the Congress party and his allegations in a measured manner. The highlight of her campaign was the way she shattered the Prime Minister and the Bharatiya Janata Party's efforts to misdirect the narrative and manipulate the public, the party said.
Himachal Pradesh's Solan marked as Gandhi's conclusion to her Lok Sabha election campaign with a huge road show. After offering prayers to Lord Hanuman at Jakhu temple, Pryanka Gandhi held her last road show of this poll campaign at Solan, with thousands of participants in the road show to support the congress leader.
Along with the all above meetings and roadshows, Gandhi also camped in Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh during this election season and brought life to the election campaign in Karnataka and Kerala. She also camped in prominent constituencies in Assam and Tripura. Garhwal and Kumaon in Uttarakhand, Marathwada and the north of Maharashtra, Mysore in Karnataka, Kalyana-Karnataka, the Kittur region in Karnataka, and the Malwa region of Punjab, were some of the seat covered by Gandhi during the course of her 55-day campaign, the Congress said.
In addition to the other major seats and cities, Priyanka Gandhi covered seats of tribal majority areas in Jharkhand, Eastern Rajasthan, Jaipur, Matsya region (Alwar) of Rajasthan,Marwar in Rajasthan, Durg division, Bastar division,Chambal seats of Madhya Pradesh and Raigarh division of Chhattisgarh. The party said, all records werte broken with the crowd that came to Priyanka Gandhi's public meetings or road show in Saharanpur, Dhubri, Fatehpur Sikri, Sirsa, Nandurbar, Kullu, Wayanad, Zahirabad, and Varanasi.
In her election campaign spread over 55 days, Priyanka Gandhi in addition to her public meeting and road shows, the Congress leader also addressed two conferences of thousands of workers in Amethi and Rae Bareli. Sharpening the Congress' election campaign, Gandhi held two to three public meetings and road shows every day. In Rae Bareli and Amethi, where Priyanka Gandhi participated in an average of 8-10 meetings, welcome ceremonies, or road shows every day, was considered the most vigorous campaign of the poll season.