New Delhi: Apprehending poll irregularities in her mother Congress president Sonia Gandhi's Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency, Priyanka Gandhi today (Apr 19, 2004) met Chief Election Commissioner and submitted a memorandum in this connection.

Emerging from the brief meeting with the poll panel, she told reporters outside that there were criminal elements in Rae Bareli and feared that rigging could take place in some booths.

She said she had also submitted a list of the sensitive booths in Rae Bareli, where elections would be held on April 26.

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Besides, Chief Election Commissioner T S Krishnamurthy, Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami and senior officials were present at the meeting.

There was chaos outside the Commission headquarters when Priyanka came out of the meeting forcing her to leave without addressing the press people who literally mobbed her. As the shutter-happy cameramen thronged her amidst scribes jostling for an earful, a more-than-willing Priyanka changed her mind and left in a jiffy.