HOW CONGRESS BROUGHT PRIYANKA, AIDES TO ASSAM

With her appointment as the chairperson of Assam screening committee, Priyanka will handle the very delicate job of selecting candidates for election.

- ANAND SINGH

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

Even as for the first time a Gandhi scion, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has been appointed as Chairperson for a state candidates screening committee since party' inception, many in the party have welcomed the decision as best foot forward in Assam to dethrone Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma, who has been critical of the Gandhi family.

However, many speculated that if she is being prepared for a bigger role in future in the organization as she has been a general secretary without any portfolio for almost two years.

Priyanka, who earlier managed the party's campaigning mostly in Rae Bareli and Amethi, the family bastion, made her debut into politics in 2019 and was appointed General Secretary with incharge of eastern Uttar Pradesh. However, after Jyotiraditya Scindia left the party, she was made oncharge for entire Uttar Pradesh.

But now with her appointment as the chairperson of Assam screening committee, Priyanka will now be handling a very delicate job. That includes at looking for the probable candidates' names from all the assembly constituencies and then select the names of the candidates, who are capable and then send it to the party's Central Election Committee (CEC).