Priyanka Gandhi born on 12 Jan 1972 in Delhi is daughter of
Indian Prime Minister Rajive Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi , Grand Daughter of Indira
Gandhi and Feroz Gandhi . Priyanka Gandhi is sister of politicain Rahul Gandhi.
She is married to Robert Vadra, a businessman from Delhi. The wedding took
place at the Gandhi home, 10 Janpath, on 18 February 1997 in a traditional
Hindu ceremony. They have two children, Raihan and Miraya. Priyanka Gandhi is a
follower of Buddhist philosophy and a practitioner of Vipassanā as taught by S.
N. Goenka.
She has continued to regularly visit her mother's and
brother's constituencies of Rae Bareilly and Amethi where she dealt with the
people directly.She is a popular figure in the constituency, drawing large
crowds everywhere; a popular slogan in Amethi in every election has been Amethikadanka, bitiya Priyanka (the
clarion call from Amethi is for Priyanka [to stand elections]).In the Indian general election, 2004, she was her mother's campaign manager and helped supervise her brother Rahul Gandhi's campaign. In a press meeting during these elections she said that "politics is all about serving the people and I am already doing that. I may continue doing only that for five years more.
In the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 2007, while Rahul Gandhi managed the statewide campaign, she focused on the ten seats in the Amethi Rae Bareilly region, spending two weeks there trying to quell considerable infighting within the party workers over seat allocations.
Priyanka Gandhi is concentrating more to her family than politics as now. However time to time congress party demanding to priyankagandhi to come in politics and take active role to help in growing the congress party.
