uttar pradesh assembly elections: Uttar Pradesh: Priyanka Gandhi denies she is CM face

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, AICC basic secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday denied that she is Congress’ chief ministerial face within the upcoming meeting polls only a day after she declared herself in that position.

Vadra claimed she was not critical when she made that remark but was solely expressing her irritation at media quarries.

“I’m not saying that I’m the (CM) face (of Congress within the Uttar Pradesh elections)… I stated that (“you possibly can see my face in all places” when requested who would be the occasion’s CM face) in irritation since you all (media individuals) have been asking the identical query repeatedly,” she clarified to a information company.

Vadra’s in a single day U-turn got here amid rising whispers in Congress circles that her Friday’s public declaration at an AICC press convention amounted to tying herself in knots as Congress efficiency within the meeting polls will probably be seen as a proper fashionable score of her management.

The UP Congress has already suffered two large electoral debacle – in 2017 meeting elections and 2019 Lok Sabha polls – beneath Vadra’s stewardship, and lots of really feel it’s headed for one more drubbing. Congress circles see her clarification as her private damage-control train..

At the same time as Vadra was doing the U-turn, the UP Congress witnessed extra desertions with former occasion MP Praveen Singh Aron and his spouse becoming a member of SP amid stories that AICC functionary RPN Singh too is weighing his choices.