Varanasi: Congress General Secretary Smt. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra offered prayers at the KashiVishwanath Temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasion October 10, 2021.

The Congress leader addressed the ‘Kisan Nyay’ rally at a ground in the Rohania area in the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister NarendraModi.

She is accompanied by Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and party observer for upcoming UP polls Shri Bhupesh Baghel, and party MP Shri Deepender Singh Hooda.

She also offered prayers at the MaaDurga Temple in the city.

Smt. Priyanka Gandhi Vadrais expected to stay in Uttar Pradesh for minimum five days every month, ahead of the upcoming State Assembly polls scheduled early next year.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Picks Up Broom Again After Yogi Adityanath’s Dig

Lucknow: Congress leader Smt. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra paid a surprise visit to a Dalit locality in Lucknowon October 8, 2021, and picked up a broom, reacting to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s dig at her for sweeping the floor at the Sitapur guest house where she was detained.

Taking on the Chief Minister for his “Casteist Comment”, Smt. Gandhi Vadra announced later in a tweet that all district committees of the party will clean Valmiki temples on October 9, 2021. In response to the Chief Minister’s remark, Smt. Gandhi descended on a Dalit colony and picked up a broom, saying it is a symbol of simplicity and self-respect.

While mingling with inhabitants of Luv Kush Nagar, the Congress General Secretary cleaned the premises of a MaharshiValmiki temple there, saying crores of women and sanitation workers in the country use brooms daily for cleaning. She also prayed at the temple.

She also told people, “He has not humiliated me by saying so, he has humiliated you all as crores of Dalit brothers and sisters are safaikaramcharis and they do this work.” “I have come here for the cleaning work along with you all and let Yogiji know that cleaning and using a broom is an act of self-respect,” she said.

“No Justice for Common People”: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Slams Centre On UP Violence

Bahraich (UP): Congress leader Smt. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who arrived here to meet the families of two farmers killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, said that by allowing Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra to continue on the post, the Centre is sending a message that those in power can do anything.

The Union minister’s son, Ashish Kumar Mishra, and others have been booked in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence that erupted during a farmers’ protest on October 3, 2021.

“If the minister of state for home does not resign nor is he sacked, then it means that the government of Prime Minister NarendraModi is giving a message to the public that if someone is in power, if he is a minister, he can do anything,” Ms She told reporters in Moharnia, where she met the family members of Gurvinder Singh, one of the four farmers killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

“The message that is coming out of it is that if someone is in power, is a minister or a BJP leader, he can do anything. There is no justice for the common people, the poor, farmers, Dalits and women. I want to tell NarendraModiji that this is the message that he is giving to people,” she further said.

On her meetings with the bereaved families since October 6, 2021, when the Uttar Pradesh government released her from detention and allowed her to go to Lakhimpur and Bahraich, the Congress General Secretary said, “We have met the families of all the deceased farmers. Everyone says they are not bothered about the compensation, they are only concerned about the dismissal of the minister of state for home and the arrest of the criminals.”

She also said that the families of the victims have some video clips of Sunday’s incident that shows what transpired that day. “The family members have said that they want justice,” she stressed. Smt. Gandhi Vadra’s convoy of vehicles was stopped by the district administration near the Ghaghra Ghat bridge as soon as it entered Bahraich from Barabanki as Section 144 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) was in force and the Congress workers accompanying her raised slogans against the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh in protest.

The magistrate and the police officers present on the spot subsequently allowed Congress leaders, who had come with Smt. Gandhi Vadra, to proceed along with her to meet the families of the dead farmers.

The Congress General Secretary, who has met the family members of five of the eight people killed in Sunday’s violence, said that she also wanted to meet the families of the BJP workers who lost their lives.

“I had asked the IG to enquire if they (the BJP workers’ families) were ready for the same but was outrightly told that they do not want to meet me. I asked to convey my sympathy to them,” she added.

On her way to Bahraich, Smt. Gandhi Vadra also performed a ‘Puja’ at a temple in the Arjunganj area of Lucknow.