Indore: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra here on Monday held a roadshow, traversing the roads while perched atop a flower-bedecked vehicle. Polling for the Indore seat, which the BJP has been winning since 1989, is scheduled on May 19 in the fourth and last phase of Lok Sabha polls in Madhya Pradesh.
Accompanied by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath and his Chhattisgarh counterpart Bhupesh Baghel, she started the roadshow from Raj Mohalla and was seen waving to the crowd who cheered and greeted her enroute as her caravan passed the crowded city streets.
At many places, the Congress workers shouted Chowidar chor hai, a slogan which party chief and Priyankas brother Rahul Gandhi uses to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale jet deal. People jostled to have a glimpse of her during the three-km long roadshow. A young man climbed the bonnet of her vehicle for a ‘selfie’ with her, which she obliged smilingly.
“Her face and mannerism reminds me of her grandmother Indira Gandhi, Bhagwan Sharma, a resident of Indore’s Kanadia area said.
The roadshow traversed the Jawahar Road, Bombay Baazar and other busy areas before it ended at the Rajwada area. Priyanka tried winning hearts and at Indore she stopped her motorcade before a group of locals chanting PM Modi’s name and met them affectionately. The Congress general secretary who had reached Indore for a four-km roadshow was moving towards the city from airport this afternoon. Locals had gathered on the roadsides to catch her glimpse.
A group present there suddenly started chanting Pm Modi’s name as Gandhi’s cavalcade passed through. To their surprise, Gandhi suddenly got her SUV halted and stepped out in a flash. Taken aback by the move, the locals found her smiling stretching a hand towards them. “App apni jagah, main meri jagah..all the best,” said the visiting leader.