No Hurry to Join Politics, Want to Absolve Myself First: Vadra

His comments came on a day when posters were put up in his hometown Moradabad, welcoming him to contest elections.

A day after hinting at “a larger role in serving the people”, Robert Vadra on Monday, 25 February, said he was not in a hurry to take the political plunge.  

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A day after hinting at "a larger role in serving the people", Robert Vadra on Monday, 25 February, said he was not in a hurry to take the political plunge.

His comments came on a day when posters were put up in his hometown Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, welcoming him to contest elections.

Robert Vadra on Monday, 25 February, said he was not in a hurry to take the political plunge.(Photo: ANI)

Vadra, the brother-in-law of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, had on Sunday, 24 February, put a Facebook post announcing that he might play "a larger role in serving the people" after the ongoing cases against him were over, sparking speculation over his joining active politics.

“I need to absolve from baseless accusations and allegations...I will start working on it. There is no hurry. People need to feel that I can make a change.”

Robert Vadra

Vadra is being probed by the Enforcement Directorate in money laundering cases related to purchase of alleged illegal assets abroad and an alleged land scam in Bikaner, Rajasthan.

‘Want to Dedicate a Larger Role in Serving People’

In the Facebook post, the Delhi-based industrialist and husband of Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra wrote about years and months he had spent campaigning and working in different parts of the country, mainly in Uttar Pradesh, and claimed that it gave him a feeling to do more for the people.

His statements have come weeks after his wife Priyanka joined active politics, and was appointed as the All India Congress Committee general secretary in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh.