"Great Face And Captain" In UP: Congress Leader Salman Khurshid On Priyanka Gandhi

Salman Khurshid also asserted that Congress will emerge as the principal challenger to the BJP before the assembly elections and Priyanka Gandhi is determined to ensure that the party fights the polls with all its might.

Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid has said it is up to AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to decide the manner in which she will present herself to the voters in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, but asserted that she is a "great face" and the "captain" leading the party's charge in the state. He also asserted that Congress will emerge as the principal challenger to the BJP before the assembly elections and Priyanka Gandhi is determined to ensure that the party fights the polls with all its might. In an interview with PTI, Salman Khurshid said the Congress would not keep waiting for alliances but was determined to fight the polls hard with everything "we have got". Asked if Priyanka Gandhi was the party's best bet to be the chief ministerial face, the former Union minister said, "I am not going to answer that till such time as she does not give us an indication. But she is a wonderful, great face."