Congress leaders must be hoping against the hope that Priyanka Gandhi’s visit to Saxttidom will help give a big boost to the party’s election campaign. For, in the absence of local vote-catching leaders, the Congress party has been desperately in need of a star campaigner to take the poll campaign in the party’s fiefdom to a higher level. Priyanka did make her presence felt in the constituencies of Nuvem and Navelim, where the party is facing a challenge of sorts from a host of parties.
