WILL DEFEAT RSS IDEOLOGY, SAYS PRIYANKA IN 1ST PARTY MEETING

NEW DELHI: In her first official meeting, the Congress’s newly appointed general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday told her party colleagues she had vowed to fight the ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Congress general secretary for Uttar Pradesh east was attending a meeting of general secretaries and state incharges at the party headquarters at 24, Akbar Road.

In her first intervention at the meeting, Priyanka Gandhi said the “ideology and thought process” of the RSS-BJP combine needed to be countered, according to three functionaries present at the meeting.

Priyanka Gandhi, 47, also said she is new and inexperienced but asserted that she will give her best. Congress president Rahul Gandhi, for his part, said he did not expect a “miracle” from Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Jyotiraditya Scindia, party general secretary incharge of Uttar Pradesh west, in two months, and that they should not feel any pressure. However, he asked them to lay the structure for a Congress revival and make it fighting fit for the 2022 assembly elections in the state.