Lucknow : Congress General Secretary and UP Congress In-Charge Priyanka Gandhi, started off Three ‘ Pratigya Yatras’ from Barabanki today. This yatra is to take to the people various resolutions adopted by the party ahead of the prized election for the state of Uttar Pradesh early next year.
“Some key promises of our manifesto are free e-Scooty and mobile phones for school girls, farm loan waiver, ₹ 25,000 per year to poor families, electricity bill half for all and full waiver of pending electricity bills of Covid period,” said Priyanka Gandhi Vadra while kicking off the yatra.
The three yatras will be running till November 1 and are as follows:
- Barabanki to Bundelkhand,
- Saharanpur to Mathura,
- Varanasi to Rae Bareli.
The yatra from Varanasi to Rae Bareli will be led by Former MP Pramod Tiwari, while the Barabanki-Bundelkhand route will be led by PL Punia and former Union minister of state Pradeep Jain Aditya.
The western front, covering the Saharanpur-Mathura route, will be led by former Union minister Salman Khurshid and senior party leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam.
During these rallies the Congress will speak with people about their ‘seven pledges’, apart from the election Manifesto.
The yatra will cover 12,000 kilometres. Various press conferences, ”nukkad sabhas”, temple visits, roadshows, Jan Sabhas, etc will be held during the yatra.
Here’s what all Priyanka Gandhi Vadra pledged if Congress comes to power in UP:
- Will give smartphones to Class 12 girls, and scooty to graduate girl students.
- We will waive all the loans of farmers. We have shown that the loans of 72 thousand crores have been waived earlier.
- Like Chhattisgarh, we will fix wheat and paddy prices at Rs 2500 in UP. The support price of sugarcane will be Rs 400 per quintal.
- We will completely waive the electricity bill during the time of Covid-19 pandemic, as well as halve everyone’s electricity bill.
- Will give financial assistance of Rs 25,000 to poor families who were unable to earn during the Corona period.
- We will work to provide 20 lakh government jobs in the state and will also work to regularise contractual workers.
Ms Gandhi Vadra has been taking on the UP government on a number of issues, including the death of four farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri earlier this month. This week she was detained by police (for the second time in a month) after she tried to visit the family of a man who died in police custody.
Ms Gandhi Vadra was earlier held – illegally, she claimed – by police who were ordered to stop her from visiting the families of the four farmers who were run over in Lakhimpur.
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