After promising 40 per cent tickets to women in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra announced on Thursday that all class 12 pass girls will be given a smartphone while all graduate girls will get an electronic scooty if her party forms a government in the state.
“Yesterday I met some girl students. They said that they need smartphones for their studies and their security. I am happy that today the UP Congress has decided , with the consent of the manifesto committee, that it will provide smartphones to inter pass girls and electronic scooties to graduate girls on coming to power,” Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.
The Congress national general secretary and in charge of party affairs in UP also attached with her tweet a video of a group of school/college girls interacting with mediapersons, saying they got pictures clicked with her.
One of the students is seen saying that Priyanka Gandhi asked them if they had phones for clicking selfies.
“We said we neither have phones nor are they allowed in colleges. She then asked us if she should get it announced that girls should get phones and we said what more can we ask for our safety,” the student said in the video.
“She asked us to study hard. I want that she continues to meet and talk to us like this,” said another student in the video.
This is one of Congress’ major steps towards attracting and getting women’s votes. In the upcoming Assembly Elections, Priyanka announced her party would give 40 per cent of the tickets to women.
She also welcomed women, who want to bring about a change in the system, to come forward and contest polls.
This is one of Congress’ major steps towards attracting and getting women’s votes. In the upcoming Assembly Elections, Priyanka announced her party would give 40 per cent of the tickets to women.
She also welcomed women, who want to bring about a change in the system, to come forward and contest polls.
“Any woman who wants to contest can give an application till November 15,” she declared at a press conference.
Later, Rahul Gandhi tweeted, “The daughter of the country says – with our hard work, with the strength of education, with proper reservation I can go on and on.”
Having been out of power since 1989 in Uttar Pradesh, Congress is seeking to regain its foothold in the state by contesting in the upcoming elections with the Bharatiya Janata Party and Samajwadi Party. Sources within the party say that by making such promises, they will attract the public’s attention, which will help them in the upcoming elections.
