Congress's Rae Bareli MLA Aditi Singh stays away from Bharat Bachao Rally

LUCKNOW: Congress MLA from Rae Bareli Sadar, Aditi Singh, stayed away from Bharat Bachao Rally – one of the party's biggest recent political events – on Saturday.
Instead of attending the rally, Aditi reviewed developmental works in her constituency besides holding a media interaction at the local municipal office.
Though she excused herself from the Ramlila Maidan event on account of personal commitments, her absence gave weight to rumours that she might change sides before the 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
"It has not been even a month since I got married… I just came back to my home in Rae Bareli for some personal commitments and rituals," Aditi told TOI when asked about the reason for her absence from the event in Delhi.
The Congress MLA said that she had generally visited the Nagar Palika office in Rae Bareli to take stock of the progress of some developmental works in her constituency. "I did not call for any press conference as being propagated by some rivals. It was a random interaction," she added.
Aditi seems to have taken the deviant path since October when she defied the party line to attend the special session of the UP Vidhan Sabha organised by the ruling BJP government to mark 150 years of Mahatama Gandhi’s birth. While the Congress party had announced that it will boycott the session, Aditi went ahead attending it. In the process, she also missed the Shanti March led by party national general secretary. The next day, her request for security step up pending since May was addressed.
A few days later, she met UP CM Yogi Adityanath in connection with pending development projects in her constituency. Then in October, Aditi was nowhere seen in the three-day-long special training session moderated by Priyanka Gandhi and other senior leaders of the party. Also, no one from the Gandhi family attended her wedding with Angad Singh Saini, Congress MLA from Nawashaher Punjab, that took place in New Delhi.
Four days after her wedding, Aditi was issued a showcause notice for deviating from the party line and attending the UP Vidhan Sabha session.