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HIGHLIGHTS
- Jobs for youth, women's safety, farmer's welfare are election issues: Priyanka Gandhi
- Your vote is a weapon, Priyanka tells Gandhinagar rally audience
- India is set to hold Lok Sabha elections between April 11 and May 19
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday invoked Mahatma Gandhi at her first rally since she officially joined the Congress party in January.
Speaking to voters in Gandhinagar, Gujarat's capital, Priyanka Gandhi listed job opportunities for young people, women's safety and farmers' welfare as election issues.
She told her audience their vote was a weapon.
"Ask the right questions. Many issues will be raked up before this elections but your awareness is your service to the nation," she said.
"Raise the right issues, ask the right questions, this country is yours. This is a country of farmers. This is a country of the youth. You can protect this nation."
I realised that this country is built with love and harmony. I feel sad at the current situation of the country. There is no better nationalism than being aware. Your vote is your weapon: GS UP East @priyankagandhi #GandhiMarchesOn pic.twitter.com/48o3nQMQ7x
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Priyanka Gandhi said the Narendra Modi government hadn't fulfilled its promises to provide jobs to crores of people. She also decried what she said was the destruction of institutions and the spread of hatred.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress in Gandhinagar: Our institutions are being destroyed. Wherever you see, hatred is being spread. Nothing matters more to us that you and I protect this nation, work for it and move forward together. pic.twitter.com/CvOGdsWtAK
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India will hold Lok Sabha elections between April 11 and May 19. Gujarat will vote in a single phase on April 23.
In January, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was appointed the Congress's general secretary for eastern Uttar Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh will vote on all seven polling days to send 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha, the highest number for any Indian state.
The eastern part of Uttar Pradesh is home to Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency represented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
This year's general election is shaping up to be a contest between an NDA government seen by many as having successfully avenged a terrorist attack in Kashmir, and an increasingly united Opposition -- one that includes a Congress party rejuvenated by wins in state polls.
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