In Uttar Pradesh’s politics, every leader has a political lodestar: Mulayam Singh Yadav constantly invokes the name of Ram Manohar Lohia. Mayawati constantly recalls B.R. Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram. If Priyanka has political ambitions, it would be only sensible on her part to hang on to the Gandhi-Nehru identity.
So what made her break with this tradition? For Congress watchers and scribes like yours truly covering the electoral battle ground in Uttar Pradesh, this was one of the more intriguing questions that had surfaced in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh election campaign.