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This is an archive article published on January 27, 2012

To help Rahul,Priyanka set to speak to party workers in ‘75-80’ UP seats

Priyanka is set to step out of the family pocketborough of Amethi and Rae Bareli.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is set to step out of the family pocketborough of Amethi and Rae Bareli to help her brother Rahul Gandhi accomplish his Mission 2012 in Uttar Pradesh.

The Congress is learnt to be preparing to organise party workers’ meetings that she will address in “about 75 to 80” Assembly constituencies across the state from early February.

Sources,however,clarified she won’t formally campaign for the party outside Amethi and Rae Bareli — the workers’ meetings were intended to galvanise them in the run-up to the elections.

Ten days ago,asked if she would join politics and campaign for the party outside Amethi and Rae Bareli,Priyanka said: “I will do anything to help my brother,whatever is required of me. I will do whatever he requires me to do. He knows to what extent he can require me.”

In recent times,there have been voices within the party demanding that Priyanka take the plunge. Days before he died last year,veteran leader Vasant Sathe urged her to help Rahul in winning the UP elections.

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