Moderate turnout in Rae Bareli after Priyanka’s appeals

Polling was a little over 45 percent in Rahul Gandhi’s parliamentary seat Amethi which went to election on April 23 after which Priyanka had taken a whirlwind tour of Rae Bareli asking people to realise their power of their votes.

Priyanka had hoped that the poll per centage will rise in the constituency,which her mother won in the 2006 byelection by a margin of 4.18 lakh votes,improving on the 3.13 lakh recorded in 2004 Assembly elections.

“I could not sleep for the whole night when I was told that polling percentage in Amethi was not that good.

But today I am satisfied after coming to know that polling was over 45 percent there,” Priyanka had said during her campaign here when asked to comment on the unenthusiastic turnout in Amethi.

Manoj Dwivedi,a real estate businessman,said he brought all his family members from Lucknow to vote here because of the Nehru-Gandhi family.

“We had come to vote for Sonia Gandhi as our family shares a relationship of loyalty with the family,” Dwivedi said.