DHAKA: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Wednesday urged voters in Uttar Pradesh to reject Narendra Modi and his party, the BJP.

‘You have to decide whether you want politics where strength and power lies in the hands of the people or is vested in just one man,’ she said at a public meeting in Raebareli.

The 42-year-old is not running for Parliament but is managing the campaigns of her mother Sonia and older brother Rahul who are the top two leaders of the Congress.

The Congress is expected to accrue a huge defeat.

The party has tried to pitch the opposition BJP, forecast by opinion polls to win the most seats, as a party that indulges in communalism, and Modi, its prime ministerial candidate, as an autocrat.

Earlier this week, in a three-minute televised appeal, Priyanka’s mother, Sonia, who is the Congress President, described the BJP’s vision as ‘clouded with hatred and falsehood’ and their ideology as ‘divisive and autocratic’.

BDST: 2049 HRS, APR 16, 2014