All India Congress Committee general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has said that she is willing to contest in the Varanasi parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking re-election.
Speaking to mediapersons just before concluding her two-day visit in Wayanad on Sunday, Ms. Vadra said she was ready to enter the fray if she was asked by her brother and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to contest in Varanasi.
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“I will be happy to contest in Varanasi if my brother Rahul Gandhi insists,” Ms. Vadra said.
As the election is an important one since it would decide the fate of the country every body should cast their votes judiciously for a new India by strengthening the United Democratic Front, she said.
She dismissed Union Minister Uma Bharti’s controversial remarks that the country will see her the way it views a “thief’s wife”. “From my grandmother, grandfather, father, mother, they have said one thing or the other about all of my family. But we will keep on doing our job,” she said.
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( With PTI inputs )