Some leaders say in private conversations that Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are still welcome to campaign but not Rahul. A candidate from the Vidarbha region told The Telegraph over phone: “The demoralisation among Congress workers is immeasurable. This feeling is so pervasive in the Congress that senior leader and former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid spoke about it on record. Sonia Gandhi stepped in, but there is more than an indication that she is treating herself as a stop-gap arrangement. We advise every Congress leader to use their energies in exposing the BJP government.”Khera asserted that both Sonia and Rahul would campaign in these elections.

Source: The Telegraph October 09, 2019 23:37 UTC