Congress to play on 'front foot' as 'behen' Priyanka enters UP battlefield

Rahul Gandhi indicated the party would not surrender an inch to the SP and BSP

In Uttar Pradesh, one strand of the Congress strategy focusses on whether 'behen', or sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, can convince sections of upper castes and OBCs, that a resurgent Congress has the ability to weaken the influence of 'behenji', the honorific for Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati.

Priyanka, the Congress general secretary in-charge of eastern UP, debuted on social media platform Twitter on Monday morning. By evening, as she traversed the streets of Lucknow for five hours in a road show, her Twitter followers increased to nearly 100,000.

Mayawati had officially announced her debut on the social media platform on Wednesday,