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I have not decided whether to campaign: Priyanka

Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh, India), Jan 17 (PTI) Touring Congress party strongholds of Amethi and Rae Bareli in the run-up to legislative assembly polls in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi today said she has not decided yet whether to campaign for the party, but made it clear that she will do "anything to help" her brother Rahul. "I have not decided yet .... So far I am here in Amethi and Rae Bareli and my brother and I will talk to each other and decide," 40-year-old Priyanka told reporters here. "I will do anything to help my brother ... whatever is required of me. I will do whatever he requires me to do. He knows to what extent he can require me," she said. Replying to questions, Priyanka, who is younger to Rahul, said, "For now, I am going to oversee the elections in these (assembly) constituencies which fall in our (Amethi and Rae Bareli) parliamentary constituencies and then, after that, we will see. If Rahul wants me to campaign (in other places), I will campaign." Talking to workers of a private factory which has been closed for the past two years, she said efforts were on to find a way out. "It's election time so I am not allowed to give them any promises, but we have been working on it for two years .... We are thinking of other solutions .... Somebody else to come and open a new one," she said, adding that the workers had been demanding help to restart the factory. Uttar Pradesh goes to polls to elect the state's next legislative assembly in several phases spread over February and March. The states of Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa also go to polls to elect their new houses during this period. PTI

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