Priyanka Maurya, the poster girl of the Congress party’s campaign for the Uttar Pradesh elections, ‘Ladki Hoon Lad Sakti Hoon’, has alleged that there was rigging in the party’s ticket distribution in the state.
“They (Congress) used my face, my name and my one million social media followers for propaganda. But when it came to the ticket for the coming election, it was given to someone else. This is injustice. This is all predetermined. I didn’t get the ticket because I am an OBC girl and could not have bribed Priyanka Gandhi’s secretary Sandeep Singh,” Priyanka Maurya, vice president of Mahila Congress in Uttar Pradesh, said in a tweet.
Priyanka Maurya wanted to contest the UP elections from Lucknow’s Sarojini Nagar seat. However, the party allotted the seat to Rudra Daman Singh.
The allegations come a day after the Congress party on Thursday announced the first list of 125 candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. The party fielded 50 women candidates, which was 40 per cent of the total candidates.
Maurya said that she entered politics thinking that she would be able to help people and bring about change. “I am a doctor who has done social work. Everyone said that I will get the ticket. The party said it would be decided on the basis of the observers’ report. The supervisors recommended my name, but I did not get the ticket,” she told India Today.
Congress party yesterday gave ticket to Unnao rape victim’s mother Poonam Pandey, who is an ASHA worker; Activist Sadaf Jafar and others are included in the first list of candidates. Addressing a press conference, Priyanka Gandhi said that 40 per cent of Congress candidates are women and the other 40 per cent are youth – a move that shows that the party is making a new and historic start.
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