(From left) Samajwadi Party vice-president Kiranmoy Nanda, state president Naresh Uttam and Congress state president Raj Babbar at a joint news conference in Lucknow on Sunday. Nine years on, the Samajwadis bailed the Congress-led UPA government out during a floor test over the Indo-US nuclear deal. Many in the Congress believe that Rajiv's move played a crucial role in the party's decline in Uttar Pradesh. Rajiv, on the advice of Ghulam Nabi Azad and Tiwari, asked his 94 MLAs to support Mulayam. To many at the Congress's state and national headquarters, the highlight of the tweet was the confirmation that Priyanka had finally joined active politics.

Source: The Telegraph January 22, 2017 21:48 UTC