Priyanka takes charge, to attend first meeting today
■ Posters outside Congress office also carry Vadra pictures
The day her husband Robert Vadra was questioned by the ED in a money- laundering case, Ms Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took charge as AICC general secretary in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh at the party headquarters. The BJP targeted Ms Vadra, accusing her husband Robert Vadra of having taken “kickbacks” from petroleum and defence deals under UPA rule.
Ms Vadra assumed charge after dropping her husband at the ED office. She will attend her first official meeting on Thursday. Party chief Rahul Gandhi has convened a meeting of all general secretaries and state in- charges to plan strategy for the Lok Sabha elections.
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The day her husband Robert Vadra was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate ( ED) in a money laundering case, Ms Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took charge as AICC general secretary incharge of Uttar Pradesh. The BJP, meanwhile, targeted Priyanka Gandhi by going on an offensive against her husband Robert Vadra, alleging he got “kickbacks” from petroleum and defence deals during the UPA regime.
Priyanka on Wednesday took charge as AICC general secretary and will helm the party’s affairs in Uttar Pradesh East. She assumed charge after dropping her husband Robert Vadra at the ED office. She then met party workers.
The Gandhi scion was appointed as general secretary
and in- charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh region on January 23 by her brother and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. Her office is adjacent to the room of her brother’s at the party headquarters at Akbar Road in New Delhi.
Interestingly, posters carrying slogans like ‘ Kattar Soch Nahi, Yuva Soch’ and ‘ Jan- Jan Ki Hai,
Yahi Pukaar, Rahul jiPriyanka ji Ab Ki Baar,’ which were put up late Tuesday evening near the Congress headquarters were removed on Wednesday as some of these carried photographs of Robert Vadra along with the party president and the newly appointed party general secretary of the eastern UP.
She will attend her first official meeting on Thursday.
Rahul has convened the meeting of all general secretaries and in- charges of various states to plan the strategy for the Lok Sabha elections.
Meanwhile, after dropping off Vadra at the Enforcement Directorate office she said, “I stand by my family”.
Her remarks came in response to a query about her husband being questioned by the ED in connection with a money laundering case relating to alleged possession of illegal foreign assets.
Before coming to AICC headquarters, Priyanka dropped off Mr Vadra at the probe agency’s office. Mr Vadra was directed by a Delhi court to cooperate with the investigation agency in its money laundering probe into alleged possession of illegal foreign assets.