Keen to field Priyanka Gandhi from Varanasi in Lok Sabha polls: UP Congress chief
India TodayThe Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee is keen to field senior leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Varanasi and will soon send a proposal in this regard to the top leadership, said newly appointed party's state president Ajay Rai on Sunday. Rai has lost three Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi -- as a Congress candidate in 2014 and 2019 to Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- and as a Samajwadi Party candidate to BJP stalwart Murli Manohar Joshi in 2009. Rai said the opposition should contest the next Lok Sabha polls under the Congress' leadership in Uttar Pradesh too as in the national level elections. At this stage people will look for an alternative to the BJP, which is naturally the Congress," said Rai when asked what shape the INDIA bloc will take in Uttar Pradesh and whether the Lok Sabha elections will be fought under the leadership of the main opposition Samajwadi Party.