Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (née Gandhi; born 12 January 1972) is an Indian politician and a general secretary of the All India Congress Committee. She is the daughter of former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, sister of Rahul Gandhi, and granddaughter of Feroze and Indira Gandhi.

Personal life-

Priyanka Gandhi did her schooling at Welham Girls’ School in Dehradun till 1984. After this, both Rahul and Priyanka were moved to day schools in Delhi due to security reasons. After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, because of constant terror threats, she and her brother Rahul both were home-schooled. Later she joined the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Delhi. obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, and later a master’s degree in Buddhist Studies in 2010.

In 1997, Gandhi married Robert Vadra, a Delhi-based businessman, started using the name Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The couple have two children.

Political career –

On 23 January 2019, Priyanka Gandhi formally entered politics after being appointed as the AICC General Secretary in charge of the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh and then as the General Secretary in charge of the entire state of Uttar Pradesh on 11 September 2020.

In 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections she launched Congress party’s Uttar Pradesh poll campaign from Barabanki on 23 October 2021. In January 2022, Priyanka Gandhi launched the Congress’s manifesto for the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election along with her brother Rahul Gandhi.

Despite all her attempts to revive the party in Uttar Pradesh and bring reforms to the polity of the state, the Congress Party faced a defeat in the assembly elections; winning 2 out of the 403 assembly seats. Following the Congress’ defeat in the state elections, on 5 August 2022, she took part in Congress’s ‘Mehangai Par Halla Bol’ protest against price-rise and inflation. Utterly failed Gandhi departed from her role as AICC General Secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh in December 2023.

She extensively campaigned for the Congress during the 2024 Indian general election. Rahul Gandhi announced that she would join electoral politics and contest as the party’s candidate for the Wayanad bypoll.

Birth Chart of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra-
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