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Priyanka Gandhi filed her information for Wayanad bypolls 2 days ago. (@INCIndia/X)
In an unfastened missive to the radical of Wayanad, aft she filed her information papers from the constituency, Congress person Priyanka Gandhi Saturday told them that she would enactment with them intimately and assistance code their challenges — particularly those faced by the women, and the tribal and farming communities.
Urging radical to elite her arsenic an MP successful the November 13 bypoll, Priyanka promised that her enactment would service to deepen the enslaved that her member and erstwhile Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi made with them, and that she would bash each she could to correspond them successful the mode that they privation to beryllium represented successful Parliament. If elected to power, it volition beryllium her “first travel arsenic a nationalist representative” of Wayanad but not her archetypal arsenic a “public fighter”, she added.
Priyanka lauded the “brave spirit” of the radical successful the district, successful notation to the alleviation activities aft tragic landslides killed astatine slightest 276 radical and resulted successful wide demolition successful July this year. “You rallied unneurotic with a spot I person not seen before. Doctors, nationalist representatives, volunteers, societal workers, teachers, nurses, housewives, everyone was doing immoderate they perchance could to assistance 1 another… Your brave tone profoundly touched me,” she wrote. The alleviation measures is 1 of the cardinal themes successful the run-up to the polls arsenic some Congress and LDF are captious of the reluctance of the BJP-led Centre to state a bundle for the affected villages.
The Wayanad bypoll was necessitated aft Rahul Gandhi vacated it to clasp his Rae Bareli spot successful Uttar Pradesh arsenic helium won from some seats successful the April 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Read her afloat missive here:
“My Dear Sisters and Brothers of Wayanad,
A fewer months back, I travelled to Chooramala and Mundakkai with my brother. I saw the devastation wrought by the landslide and the extent of the nonaccomplishment you suffered. I met children who had mislaid everyone they loved, mothers who were grieving for their children and families whose full lives had been washed distant by the rage of nature. Yet, done the acheronian of the calamity that befell you, what shone done to maine was your immense courageousness and fortitude arsenic a community. You rallied unneurotic with a spot I person not seen before. Doctors, nationalist representatives, volunteers, societal workers, teachers, nurses, housewives, everyone was doing immoderate they perchance could to assistance 1 another. No 1 was tearing into the different with blasted oregon anger. No 1 was resorting to pettiness oregon greed. Even successful the helplessness of an overwhelming tragedy, you were cooperating, comforting 1 different and rising to the highest standards of humanity. Your brave tone profoundly touched me.
As I was returning home, I felt that it would beryllium an honour to correspond you successful parliament. It would beryllium an honour to larn from you, to recognize your lives and the challenges you look and to go portion of this courageous assemblage that knows however to respect each different and basal gangly adjacent successful the astir trying times.
You person fixed my member your love, and I cognize helium reciprocates it fully. When helium asked maine to beryllium the Congress campaigner for Wayanad, helium did it with a substance of pridefulness and sadness successful his heart. Pride successful your values, successful your civilization and successful your genuinely heavy enslaved with him and sadness for having to permission you. I promised him that my enactment present volition service to deepen this enslaved and that I volition bash each I tin to combat for you and correspond you successful the mode that you privation to beryllium represented successful Parliament. He besides explained your struggles to maine successful item and briefed maine astir the galore issues that request attraction and solution successful Wayanad. He was particularly acrophobic astir the difficulties faced by the farming and tribal communities. I anticipation to enactment intimately with you to look these challenges.
Together we tin enactment towards gathering upon your capabilities and creating caller opportunities to fortify your future. My sisters are astir important to me, I consciousness profoundly for the request to make opportunities for women and for their state to unrecorded their lives connected their ain terms. Wayanad is talented with large earthy quality and uncountable resources. I judge that protecting them and celebrating your civilization of respect for the situation ought to beryllium cardinal to improvement here. I genuinely look guardant to proceeding from you, to gathering arsenic galore of you arsenic I perchance tin and to listening to your views connected however we tin enactment unneurotic successful the mode that benefits you most.
You volition beryllium my guides and teachers successful this travel which (I hope) volition beryllium my archetypal arsenic a nationalist typical but not my archetypal arsenic a nationalist fighter! Fighting for democracy, for justness and for the values enshrined successful our constitution is cardinal to my life. I look guardant to carrying this conflict for each our futures guardant with your enactment and volition beryllium profoundly grateful to you if you take to marque maine your MP.
Priyanka”
The bypoll is scheduled to beryllium held connected November 13 and Priyanka battles seasoned CPI person Sathyan Mokeri and Kozhikode municipal councillor Navya Haridas of the BJP.
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