Priyanka's Sonbhadra visit and the dynasty's fight against Cong's old guard

The brother and sister are keen, not just to put up a fight against the BJP, but also challenge the old guard currently led by senior leader Ahmed Patel in their party

It would be premature to conclude that Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s attempt on Friday to meet the families of the 11 tribals killed in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra could galvanise her party just as her grandmother Indira Gandhi’s August 1977 visit to Belchhi, a village in Bihar’s Nalanda district where 11 Dalits were killed, did.

Priyanka’s effort, however, indicates the political strategy that she, and in the weeks to come her brother and outgoing Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, plan to adopt to reclaim the lost political space of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.

The brother and sister are keen not just to