New Delhi: After Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi, it will be his sister Priyanka Vadra who will campaign for the Congress in Uttar Pradesh where Assembly polls will be held in seven phases over the next two months.
A detailed programme of the Congress roadshow is yet to be finalised, party sources said the daughter of the Congress chief is expected to campaign across the state soon.
While Rahul is currently on a three-day campaign trail in western Uttar Pradesh, the party is also expected to ask young leaders like Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sachin Pilot to mobilise support for candidates in the state.
Though, both her children will be campaigning, Congress President Sonia Gandhi will be the star campaigner in the crucial Assembly polls.
Meanwhile, on Monday during a campaign speech, Rahul Gandhi said that the Congress' alliance with the BSP in 1996 was a mistake and it will not be repeated.
"The 1996 alliance was a sell-out and a blanket one," he said, on his way to Muzaffarnagar on the second day of his three-day whistle-stop tour of Western UP.
Speaking to journalists, he said the alliance would never have gone through if the Gandhi family had been in charge.
He termed the alliance as a "sellout" and claimed there would be no more “blanket alliances” like this one in the future.
“There would be future alliances with other regional parties, but not as the one we had in 1996,” he said.
The Amethi MP, however, admitted that the Congress was in discussion with Ajit Singh's RLD and VP Singh's Jan Morcha for electoral alliances in the upcoming UP elections.
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