The Congress on Wednesday appointed Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the party’s General Secretary for Uttar Pradesh East ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the country. Priyanka, who was campaigning for the party in her family borough Amethi, has been assigned the additional charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh. Apart from that, the Congress has also appointed parliamentarian Jyotiraditya Scindia as party General Secretary for Uttar Pradesh West and KC Venugopal as General Secretary (Organisation).

Priyanka will take charge from February 1 once she returns from abroad, while Scindia has taken charge with immediate effect, reports said. With the appointment, Priyanka has taken a plunge into active politics. Earlier, she had only campaigned in Amethi and Raebareli. Robert Vadra, in a Facebook post, congratulated wife Priyanka on being appointed as Congress General Secretary for Eastern Uttar Pradesh.