Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday thanked the voters for Wayanad for his or her help, saying that she seems ahead to being their voice in Parliament.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of the Congress is main by greater than 4 lakh votes within the Wayanad Lok Sabha by-poll in Kerala, as per the newest knowledge shared by the Election Fee of India.
She even surpassed the lead achieved by her brother Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
“I’m overwhelmed with gratitude for the belief you’ve positioned in me. I’ll guarantee that over time, you really really feel this victory has been your victory and the particular person you selected to symbolize you understands your hopes and goals and fights for you as considered one of your personal,” Priyanka Gandhi wrote in a submit on X. “I sit up for being your voice in Parliament!”
She additionally thanked the voters of Wayanad for giving her the honour and immense love within the elections. Comply with Wayanad election outcomes LIVE updates.
“My colleagues within the UDF, leaders from throughout Kerala, staff, volunteers and my workplace colleagues who labored extremely arduous on this marketing campaign, thanks to your help, for tolerating my 12 hour a day (no meals, no relaxation, automotive journeys, and for preventing like true troopers for the beliefs all of us imagine in,” she mentioned.
She additionally thanked her mom, Sonia Gandhi, her husband, Robert Vadra and her two kids – Raihan and Miraya, saying that no gratitude is ever sufficient for the love and braveness they provide her.
“And to my brother, Rahul, you’re the bravest of all of them… thanks for exhibiting me the way in which and having my again, at all times!” she mentioned.
Wayanad bypoll
The bypoll in Wayanad was necessitated after Rahul Gandhi vacated the constituency and selected Raebareli, the second seat, he received on this yr’s Lok Sabha elections.
Gandhi had received the Wayanad seat by a margin of three.6 lakh votes this yr, defeating CPI’s Annie Raja. The Congress subsequently fielded Priyanka within the bypoll in Wayanad.