Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s BIG announcement - Congress to give 40% tickets to women in UP assembly polls 2022

“These tickets will be given on the basis of merit and not just on the basis of caste or religion. I have taken this decision for women`s empowerment. There is no other political motive, agenda behind this decision," Priyanka Gandhi added.

Lucknow: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday made a big announcement saying that her party will give 40 per cent of tickets to women in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 2022.

The Congress general secretary made these remarks while addressing a press conference in Lucknow.

"We want women in politics to become a full-fledged partner in power," she told reporters here. "Today, I am going to talk about our first promise. We have decided that in the upcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress party will give 40 per cent of tickets to women," she added.

The Congress party has decided that it will give 40% of the total election tickets to women in the state: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections pic.twitter.com/WGPTSLbDcx — ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 19, 2021

“These tickets will be given on the basis of merit and not just on the basis of caste or religion. I have taken this decision for women`s empowerment. There is no other political motive, agenda behind this decision," she added. 

Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Uttar Pradesh government in the state over the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, she said, "Unfortunately, those who mow down people in the state are protected by the Centre and those who get killed, mowed down plead for justice here."

"We all saw what happened in Hathras, Lakhimpur....what do you expect from such a BJP government," she said. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee in charge of Uttar Pradesh.

In the 2017 Assembly elections, the BJP won a landslide victory winning 312 Assembly seats. The party secured a 39.67 per cent vote share in the elections for 403-member Assembly. 

Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, BSP won 19 while Congress could manage to win only seven seats.