NEW DELHI: Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday joined her brother Rahul Gandhi during a meeting he was having with senior party leaders, sending a buzz in political circles.
Senior leaders Ahmed Patel and Janardan Dwivedi, along with half a dozen other general secretaries, were holding a meeting with Rahul, the party vice-president at his residence here when his sister dropped in.
She was there for around five minutes.
There has been speculation in recent months on whether Priyanka, who has so far confined her politics to campaign for her mother Sonia Gandhi in Raebareli, would take a plunge into politics fulltime.
Her participating in the meeting fuelled further speculation.
Party sources playdown the speculation saying,” the meeting was to discuss the tour programme of Congress president and Congress vice-president in the coming weeks and Priyankaji just walked in towards the end of the meeting.”
A senior party functionary, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the meeting of party leaders with Rahul Gandhi lasted for around 50 minutes.
Apart from Priyanka, the meeting was attended by Sonia’s political secretary Ahmed Patel, Union minister Jairam Ramesh and senior leader Janardhan Dwivedi, among others.
Interestingly, sources said Rahul was not present at the meet.
The meeting holds significance ahead of Congress’ crucial January 17 meet where it is expected to name Rahul as the party’s prime ministerial candidate for upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
The meeting has given birth to fresh speculations about Congress’ PM candidate, and many are looking at today’s meet as a precursor to the big decision which could even be preponed in the wake of rising popularity of Narendra Modi (BJP) and Arvind Kejriwal (AAP). (Agencies)
