Priyanka Gandhi
Priyanka Gandhi, also known by her married name Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, is an Indian politician and the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee in charge of Eastern Uttar Pradesh.
Born: 12 January 1972 (age 48 years), New Delhi
Height: 1.73 m
Full name: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
Spouse: Robert Vadra (m. 1997)
Children: Miraya Vadra, Raihan Vadra
Education: University of Delhi, Convent of Jesus & Mary, Jesus and Mary College, Welham Girls' School, Modern School Barakhamba Road.
Priyanka Gandhi studied at the Modern School and Convent of Jesus & Mary. She obtained a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, and later a master's degree in Buddhist studies in 2010.
Gandhi had regularly visited her mother's and brother's constituencies of Rae Bareilly and Amethi where she dealt with the people directly.
She is a popular figure in the constituency, drawing large crowds everywhere; a popular slogan in Amethi in every election has been Amethi ka danka, bitiya Priyanka (the clarion call from Amethi is for Priyanka [to stand elections]).
In the 2004 Indian general election, she was her mother's campaign manager and helped supervise her brother Rahul Gandhi's campaign. In the 2007 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, while Rahul Gandhi managed the statewide campaign, she focused on the ten seats in the Amethi Rae Bareilly region, spending two weeks there trying to quell considerable infighting within the party workers over seat allocations. .
On January 23, 2019, Priyanka Gandhi formally entered politics, being appointed the Congress' General Secretary in charge of the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh.
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