Lok Sabha 2019 polls: Will it be Priyanka Gandhi Vadra vs PM Modi and UP CM Yogi?

The newly inducted Congress general secretary and party incharge for Uttar Pradesh (east) Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been made in-charge of 43 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

Priyanka has been given charge of the party affairs in eastern UP. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency Varanasi and CM Yogi Adityanath's stronghold Gorakhpur fall in the region. She is also learnt to have discussed the party's strategy for the area ahead of Lok Sabha elections during informal meetings held on Tuesday.

The first big task for Priyanka would be to infuse life in a crumbling Congress in eastern UP, where it got dislodged first in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and then in the state Assembly elections 2017.