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2022 UP polls: Priyanka to launch Congress manifesto for women today

In the last two months, Priyanka had announced several women-centric promises including 40% tickets to women candidates for contesting 2022 UP Assembly polls, smartphones to Class 12 pass girls and electric scooters to graduating women, and skill development schools for women.

Published on: Dec 8, 2021, 00:03:31 IST
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Congress general secretary and party’s Uttar Pradesh (UP) incharge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, will launch her party’s manifesto for women for the 2022 UP assembly polls in Lucknow on Wednesday.

Priyanka had announced several women-centric promises including 40% tickets to women candidates for contesting 2022 UP Assembly polls. (file photo)
Priyanka had announced several women-centric promises including 40% tickets to women candidates for contesting 2022 UP Assembly polls. (file photo)

Priyanka had arrived in Lucknow on Monday for holding meetings with various election-related committees of the party.

“Priyanka ji will launch the women manifesto for the UP polls at noon on Wednesday,” said Congress spokesperson, Anshu Awasthi.

In the last two months, Priyanka had announced several women-centric promises including 40% tickets to women candidates for contesting 2022 UP Assembly polls, smartphones to Class 12 pass girls and electric scooters to graduating women, and skill development schools for women.

“All these and more promises for women will be announced and documented in the manifesto too,” said a young party leader.

On Monday, Priyanka held a meeting of the party’s manifesto committee wherein she had said that her party’s poll manifesto for the upcoming UP elections will be a roadmap for all-inclusive and all-round growth of the state. She had also said that the manifesto will pay special attention to all sections of the society, youths, women, farmers, traders and various deprived sections of the society.

On Tuesday, she chaired a meeting of planning and strategy committee and discussed strategy for the polls including how to take the party’s poll campaign to each and every house in the state.

UP is scheduled to go for elections in 2022.

Previously, in the 2017 UP elections, the BJP bagged 312 seats out of the 403-seat Uttar Pradesh Assembly while Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won 19 and Congress could win only seven seats. The rest of the seats were bagged by other candidates. Congress had contested the 2017 polls in alliance with the SP.

 
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Pankaj Jaiswal

Pankaj Jaiswal is Bureau Chief, Uttar Pradesh. He covers-analyses politics, and assists Hindustan Times reporters across the state. He has 30 years of experience in print media reporting. Based in Lucknow, he started his journalism career at a national English daily in Kanpur after graduating from Christ Church College. He joined Hindustan Times, Lucknow edition, as part of the launch team in 1997. He’s covered everything from rural distress to science, environment, wildlife, and crime. He has travelled extensively in Uttar Pradesh for rural, development, political, and election reporting. His continued interest in rural issues, rural distress, and development journalism has fetched him a handful of prestigious awards and fellowships. Pankaj is a photojournalist too. He clinched the Statesman Award for Rural Reporting—First Prize in 2009 and Third Prize in 2006—for exposing Bundelkhand’s devastating drought and distress: crop failures, farm suicides, migration, debt, and the injustice of meagre compensation cheques between Rs 10 and Rs 20 to farmers by the government from crop loss. He also has been awarded with Hindustan Times internal 'Journalist of the Month' citation over half a dozen times. His relentless reporting in Hindustan Times pulled the Bundelkhand crisis out of obscurity and forced it into the national spotlight, prompting media and government action on one of India’s most neglected regions. Over a decade, he filed hundreds of hard-hitting stories, travelling repeatedly from Lucknow deep into Bundelkhand. He also received the Special Mention KC Kulish International Award 2009. Pankaj also did long-haul political reporting on the most intense political family feud—’The Yadav Family Feud’—between 2016 and 2022.

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