by Harish Gupta, National Editor, Lokmat Group
Lokmat News Network
New Delhi, Feb 23:
Priyanka Gandhi who was considered as the prime architect of the Congress-SP alliance in UP and billed as a star campaigner, is suddenly out of action.
Barring the lone poll rally appearance last week in the family bastion of Rae Bareli, Priyanka Gandhi’s No-Show has set tongues wagging. The party workers and candidates in these two Lok Sabha constituencies and neighbouring areas were desperately looking for Priyanka Gandhi. But she was no where around.
Highly placed sources in the Gandhi family say that the reasons for Priyanka Gandhi’s absence from the poll scene are personal. While Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been out of action due to medical advice, Priyanka Gandhi has been forced to stay back in the Capital due to serious injury in the left eye of her son Rehan.
Presently admitted at Capital’s prestigious Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rehan’s eye ailment has been a cause of serious worry for the entire family and virtually incapacitated her movement.
While the family sources confirmed the injury to Rehan’s eye when it was hit by a cricket ball. It transpires that Rehan was first taken to AIIMS and then to Hyderabad and now admitted at the Ganga Ram hospital.
