Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to make a poll debut

Considered as one of the most charismatic Congress leaders, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is the latest member of the Gandhi-Nehru family to make an electoral debut.

Five years after formally joining politics in 2019, Ms Vadra will contest the bye-election to the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat, a seat vacated by her brother and Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi.

After winning both Wayanad in Kerala and Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, Mr Gandhi retained Rae Bareli.

“The people of Wayanad hold a special place in my heart, and I can’t imagine a better representative for them than my sister, @priyankagandhi. I’m confident she will be a passionate champion of Wayanad’s needs and a powerful voice in Parliament,” Mr Gandhi said in a post on X on Tuesday.

Though Ms Vadra has an electoral fray, two decades after her brother first contested and won the Amethi Lok Sabha seat, she isn’t a stranger to electoral politics. Since 1999, Ms Vadra has had rich experience of managing her mother, Sonia Gandhi’s constituencies of Amethi in 1999 and Rae Bareli since 2004.