UP does’nt need an Outsider: Priyanka over Modi

TIL Desk/National/UP/ Priyanka Gandhi joined brother Rahul Gandhi in attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his “adopted son” remark, saying Uttar Pradesh does not need an outsider when it has its own to take it forward. Priyanka, who addressed an election rally for the first time during the ongoing assembly polls in UP, asked people of the state to strengthen the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance and bring it to power.

She, along with Rahul, accused Modi of making “hollow” and “false” promises, particularly in the context of his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi in UP. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier said Varanasi has adopted me and I am like a son for it and will develop it…But I felt, does Uttar Pradesh need to adopt anyone from outside,” Priyanka said to a cheering crowd of Rae Bareli in the Lok Sabha constituency of her mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi.

“Modiji, does the state need to adopt anyone from outside? Is there no youth here?…You have two such youth in Rahulji and Akhileshji before you who have UP in their hearts and mind,” Priyanka told the gathering. Modi, while addressing a rally in Hardoi on Thursday, had called himself the “adopted son” of UP and said the future of the state cannot be ensured without ridding it of the SP, the Congress and the BSP.