Overview
- Senior leaders, including Mallikarjun Kharge, publicly hailed the 54-year-old Congress general secretary, with the party’s media chief calling her the party’s “quintessential Sherni.”
- The Uttar Pradesh Congress unveiled a 100-day action plan tied to her profile, starting with a Sitapur rally on January 24 and culminating in a mega event in Lucknow after more than 30 outreach meetings.
- In Amethi, party workers marked the day by launching the MGNREGA Bachao Sangram from January 12 to 29 to oppose the Centre’s VB-G RAM G Act replacing MGNREGA.
- Priyanka Gandhi now chairs the Congress screening committee for the March–April Assam assembly elections, in a first for a Nehru–Gandhi family member reported in recent coverage.
- ThePrint reports that party functionaries view the Assam contest, where DK Shivakumar and Bhupesh Baghel serve as observers and Imran Masood is on the panel, as a key test of her growing influence.