Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi is all set to rent a guest house in Hyderabad with the target of bringing Congress to power in the upcoming Telangana Assembly elections scheduled for December.
With just six months left for the Telangana Assembly polls, Priyanka has reportedly decided to camp in Hyderabad until the Assembly elections are over by the end of 2023.
Last week, Priyanka Gandhi addressed a huge public meeting in Hyderabad and released the "Congress Youth Declaration," promising 2 lakh government jobs to youth in a year, 75% reservations for locals in the private sector, Rs 4,000 per month unemployment allowance to unemployed youth, etc.
The Congress leadership is of the firm opinion that Priyanka's first public meeting in Telangana has helped the party connect with the youth and unemployed in the state and improve the prospects of Congress in Telangana ahead of the Assembly polls.
Telangana Congress leaders have also requested Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to make Priyanka Gandhi the incharge for Telangana Assembly polls, camp her in Telangana for the next six months, and organize state-wide tours and public meetings of Priyanka if Congress has to dethrone BRS government in Telangana.
TPCC leaders told the party high command that Priyanka enjoys the support of Telangana people who see Indira Gandhi in her, and this emotional attachment will help Congress secure power in Telangana.
They reminded Sonia and Rahul that Indira Gandhi contested from the Medak Lok Sabha seat in the 1970s soon after the Emergency and brought Congress back to power in the country. In the same way, Priyanka has the capacity to turn the fortunes in favor of Congress in Telangana.
Despite carving Telangana State, Congress lost Assembly polls to BRS in 2014 and 2018. KCR dealt a double blow to Congress by engineering the defection of Congress MLAs into BRS in the last nine years, weakening Congress further.
Sonia and Rahul are reportedly in favor of Priyanka leading the Congress campaign for the Telangana Assembly polls and have asked her to focus on Telangana for the next six months.