The Congress will give 40 percent tickets to women candidates in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the party’s UP in-charge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra announced in Lucknow on Tuesday, while she asked questions about her contesting elections. postponed. Priyanka appealed for maximum contribution of women in politics, saying, “There is no one to protect you here. Only those who talk about protecting you are safe, but you are not.”
Priyanka also announced that applications have been invited from all 403 constituencies of Uttar Pradesh till November 15. “I urge women to join politics and stand shoulder to shoulder with me. Together we will change the politics of this country and this state,” she said.
He further said, “The government thinks that Rs 2,000 and a gas cylinder will fix everything… We will get strong women candidates and we will support them. Now or else we will be stronger till the next election.”
Slamming the Yogi Adityanath government over the safety of women in the state, Priyanka also referred to the recent incident in Lakhimpur Kheri, where four farmers were crushed to death by an SUV of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni.
Priyanka said, “When I came to UP in 2019, I met some girls from Allahabad University and they told me about different laws for them and male students. This decision has been taken for them only. We have visited Prayagraj. Ki took this decision for a girl named Paro, who said, Didi, I want to become a leader when I grow up. It is also for Vaishnavi, sister of a martyr pilot from Chandauli, who said that she wanted to become a pilot. “
He further said, “This decision is also for the family of the Unnao rape victim, rape victim in Hathras. This announcement is for the tribal women of Sonbhadra…. It is for the daughter of the deceased journalist Ramesh Kashyap in Lakhimpur Kheri.. Two women policemen assaulted me on my way to Lakhimpur. This decision is for them also.”
Priyanka Gandhi said the 40% figure was to make a start and that the reservation in tickets for women could be increased to 50% in future. However, she brushed aside the question whether she will contest the 2022 UP elections? “I haven’t taken any decision on it yet,” he said.
On Sunday, PL Punia, the new Congress campaign committee chief in Uttar Pradesh, had said that Priyanka Gandhi would be the “face” of the election campaign in Uttar Pradesh.
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