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  • 2022 UP polls: Priyanka Gandhi flags off Congress Pratigya Yatra from Barabanki

    By Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Congress general secretary and party’s Uttar Pradesh in-charge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra flagged off her party’s three-route ‘Pratigya Yatra’ from Barabanki district on Saturday. The yatra will end on November 1 in the Bundelkhand region. 

    Priyanka flagged off the yatra from the grounds of Harakh Inter College in the Zaidpur area of Barabanki. Before flagging off the yatra, the Congress leader took a pledge to fulfill seven resolutions made for the people of Uttar Pradesh.

    The yatra will travel through Saharanpur, Mathura, Varanasi, and Raebareli before culminating in Bundelkhand.

    The seven resolutions decided by the Congress party repeated during the flagging off the Pratigya Yatra included: 

    40% tickets to women candidates
    Smartphones and e-scooty to girl students
    Complete loan waiver to farmers
    Rs 2500 MSP for wheat and paddy, Rs 400 SAP for cane
    Only half of the power dues will have to be paid; waiving off power dues of pandemic duration
    To mitigate the hardships of the pandemic, families will be given Rs 25000
    Government jobs to 25 lakh people
    The first route for the yatra (Varanasi-Avadh) will start from Varanasi and end in Raebareli passing through Chandauli, Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, Prayagraj, Pratapgarh, and Amethi districts. This route will be led by Congress leaders Pramod Tiwari, Rajesh, and Nadeem Javed.

    The second route (Barabanki-Bundelkhand) will start from Barabanki and ends at Jhansi, which will include Lucknow, Unnao, Fatehpur, Chitrakoot, Banda, Hamirpur, and Jalaun districts. This route will be led by Punia, former union minister Pradeep Jain Aditya and chairperson of media department Nasimuddin Siddiqui.

    The third route (West) will start from Saharanpur and end at Mathura, which will cover  Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Moradabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Badaun, Aligarh, Hathras, and Agra districts. This route will be led by former union minister Salman Khurshid and Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam.

  • 2022 UP polls: Priyanka to spend 5 days a week in state to see ground reality

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Working day in and day out to revive Congress in UP ahead of 2022 electoral battle, Congress general Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra seems to be ready with her master plan. As per the plan, she would now spare five days a week to the party in the state and spend only the weekend in Delhi.

    Priyanka has reportedly prepared an elaborated plan to tour the state and stay in different districts to get the pulse on the ground.

    As per the highly-placed Congress sources, Priyanka will sound her party’s poll bugle from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi on October 10. She would also supervise Congress’s ambitious Pratigya Yatra which would take off on October 17. During the Yatra, to take off from four different places in the state, the Congressmen would reach out to the common man to expose the alleged failures of the BJP government in the state.

    The Yatra is likely to culminate into a big rally in Lucknow drawing senior Congress leaders including Priyanka in November.

    However, reviewing the party’s poll preparedness on the third day of her current 5-day visit to UP on Thursday, the Congress general secretary participated in a meeting of the newly constituted screening committee for finalising party tickets.

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    It is chaired by Congress general secretary Jitendra Singh, while party MP Deepender Singh Hooda and Maharashtra Cabinet minister Varsha Gaikwad also joined it as members on Thursday.

    The Congress is still collecting applications from those who wish to contest the polls and has sought suggestions from various units of the party, including the district committees. These suggestions were taken up in the meeting.

    Priyanka, who is chairing meetings with the state leadership, is an ex-officio member of the committee along with state Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu, Congress Legislative Party leader Aradhna Mishra, and the party secretaries in charge of the state.

    After the meeting at Kaul house in Lucknow, Priyanka met the members of the Nishad community and heard their grievances in detail at Congress headquarters. She also held a dialogue with the party’s social media handlers.

    In the last assembly elections in 2017, Congress had fought in alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP) and had won just seven seats with a vote share of 6.5%. However, SP had declined from 229 to 47, and BSP to just 19 from 80 seats. The BJP had romped home with a huge majority winning 312 of 403 seats.

  • Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi meets health workers in Lucknow

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met various people, including doctors and health workers here on Wednesday, and praised them from their efforts during the pandemic. Ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Priyanka Gandhi is on a five-day visit in Lucknow to review and discuss the party’s preparedness for the polls.

    On the third day of her visit Wednesday, she continued her meetings with senior party leaders to discuss the strategy for the polls, Pankaj Srivastava, vice chairman of the Media and Communication Department of the UP Congress Committee, told media. She will continue meetings at Kaul house with party office bearers.

    During meetings on Tuesday, the party’s general secretary had discussions relating to setting up of “war rooms” at district levels to receive feedback from the ground so as to take prompt decisions on emergent issues as part of the election strategy.

    She also discussed the route for the party’s proposed ‘Pratigya Yatra’. The party leaders also discussed the booth management strategy considered important for the polls, party officials said. This is her second visit this month after September 13, when she stayed in the state for five days.

    The Congress party had fought the 2017 UP polls in alliance with the Samajwadi Party. The grand old party had managed to win just seven of the 114 contested seats with a vote share of 6.25 per cent. This time, the Congress party has announced that it would fight the 2022 polls without aligning with any big political party.