UP Polls 2022: Priyanka Gandhi Releases ‘Women Manifesto’, Promises 40% Quota In Govt Jobs
40% tickets to women candidates assured to implemented on ground if voted to power after contesting 2022 UP Assembly polls
Mumbai: Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in 2022, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday released a special manifesto for women and lists many benefits that aim at uplifting women’s self-esteem and self-reliance. Also Read: Laal Topi Is Colour Of Change, UP Wants Change: Akhilesh Yadav On PM Modi’s ‘Laal Topi’ Attack
Priyanka Gandhi in Lucknow said, “We prepared ‘women manifesto’ where we want to say we actually want to empower them. We’ll have to create an environment where shackles can be broken with their opinion, where they get full participation in politics & participation in society that ends their exploitation.” Also Read: Never Raised Any Slogan Against India, Want To Bring Gandhi’s Back, Says Farooq Abdullah
The grand old party had previously stated 40% tickets to women candidates for contesting 2022 UP Assembly polls and assured that will be implemented on the ground if voted to power. Also Read: Congress Leaders Trying To Change Narrative To Cover Up Failures In Development, Says Bommai
“We gave 40% representation to women (for UP Assembly polls) so that their empowerment doesn’t remain confined to paper. When women will truly be a part of politics then it will be translated not on paper but on the ground,” said Congress General Secretary.
Stressing on the Congress’s representation of women in the country, she said, “Congress gave the first woman PM to the country. Congress’ Sucheta Kripalani was the first woman CM. Our country had the first woman PM when other countries had very low women representation at that level.”
As per the Manifesto, women will also be entitled to subsidised loans, empowered by the party to increase their participation in the rural workforce, and women will also get preference under MGNREGA. The manifesto further lists that 50% of PDS shops will be allocated to women, free mobile phones will be given to girls who pass the class 12 examination, and electric scooters will be given to girls who complete graduation.
Apart from that, the women’s manifesto also promised that women will be given free travel in state transport buses and they would also receive three LPG cylinders per year. Women would also receive free Wi-Fi at home, especially those from poor families.
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