Despite the party’s condition in Uttar Pradesh being critical, spring has come in the Congress’ move. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has grabbed headlines since taking the lead Lakhimpur The incident and her announcement to field 40% women candidates in the upcoming elections in the state has taken many by surprise.
But will people buy it until Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the captain of the Congress ship and the female face of the party, enters the electoral fray? His party people are projecting him as the chief ministerial face, with senior leaders like Salman Khurshid and PL Punia calling him the face of the party in Uttar Pradesh. The party’s latest poster features the biggest picture with the slogan “the only option”. So will Priyanka contest the election from Ayodhya and take it to the enemy camp by contesting against CM Yogi Adityanath? The latter is a discussion in the BJP.
The answer to this question may lie in the anti-climax in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, when Priyanka sparked speculation by first asking whether she should contest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi and later saying that she was ready, So he’s ready. The party president (Rahul Gandhi) asked him. Ultimately, he did not contest with the party without risking Priyanka’s electoral debut against Modi. Then some people had said that Priyanka may take the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in 2024 from her mother Sonia Gandhi as an electoral debut.
But the demand for her in the party cadre to set an example and contest a seat in the assembly elections is now expected to rise, given Priyanka’s recent announcement and her latest announcement to float 40% women candidates. “What would be more appropriate than contesting a high-profile seat under the leadership of Priyanka? This will electrify the cadre and show that the Congress is fighting the election with all seriousness,” said a senior party leader in UP. However, a former Congress leader from UP said that Gandhi would not contest for less than one Lok Sabha seat.
The protest against 40% women tickets is making fun of the opposition
The political understanding in the state is that such announcements of 40% tickets to women candidates may not be enough to woo women voters in UP, who have backed the BJP on the law and order issue in three successive elections since 2014, a women-centric Schemes such as Ujjwala, Swachh Bharat and free food grains. Even the Samajwadi Party, which was voted out in 2017 mainly on the issue of poor law and order, has been mobilizing women voters in the state through a series of programs such as ‘Samajwadi Mahila Sammelan’ by its women leaders. Is tempted.
Both the Samajwadi Party and the BJP challenged the Congress to make a similar announcement of 40% of tickets for women candidates in Punjab and Uttarakhand elections, which are due with Uttar Pradesh and where the Congress actually stands a chance of winning. “It is one thing to declare… what matters more in candidate selection is the winning merit and not the gender. Congress has no chance to win in UP so it can give ticket to anyone. There is no Congress anywhere in the state. Does it even have candidates for 403 seats?” A Samajwadi Party leader told News18.
Meanwhile, BJP launched a dynastic attack on Priyanka, saying that the two women leaders who sat beside her at the press conference in Lucknow were daughters of both senior Congress leaders. UP BJP leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi said that she has left Congress because she was humiliated.
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