UP Elections 2022: Priyanka Gandhi pulls out of alliance, says ‘Congress will win on its own’

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday ruled out any possibility Possibility of a pre-poll alliance Along with other political parties for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections to be held next year. “If the Congress has to win, it will win on its own,” the 49-year-old said.

Addressing the Congress party’s ‘Pratigya Sammelan – Lakshya 2022’ in Bulandshahr, Gandhi said, “We will nominate only Congress workers for all the assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.”

Last month, Samajwadi Party (main opposition party in Uttar Pradesh) chief Akhilesh Yadav had told CNN-News18, “Our experience of alliances with big parties has been bitter. So now we are hoping to bring smaller parties together and not bigger parties.”

“I don’t think SP will have any alliance with Congress or BSP,” he said.

Faced with the daunting task of consolidating its support base in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress recently promised 40 per cent ticket to women in the upcoming assembly elections to be held early next year. Priyanka said the decision was aimed at making women, who constitute almost half the vote bank, “full participants in power”.