Don’t touch my feet,shake hands: Priyanka to women

Treat politicians as servants and not God: Priyanka Gandhi

Congress star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi does not like to see people deifying politicians and that includes herself as well.

So,when women in a row began touching her feet in Nandakher village in her mother Sonia Gandhi’s parliamentary constituency of Rae Bareli,Priyanka withdrew and offered her hand. “Do not touch my feet. Shake hands,” she told them.

A few days back,Priyanka had told the villagers in Bhojapur village of Sareni assembly segment to treat politicians as servants and not God.

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A day after party chief Sonia Gandhi addressed her first election meeting in Rae Bareli,Priyanka was back at her job of teaching the mantra of politics and power to Rae Bareli voters to whom her “family owes a lot.”

In Bhitargaon village,she repeated “leader is a medium of service … a servant while the true power lies in you.”

In Akoria Chouraha village,she told people not to vote for the candidate who did not take care of them.

The constituency,which her mother,father,grandmother and grandfather represented goes to polls on May 30 from where Sonia Gandhi seeks re-election for the second time.

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