Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra released the party’s first list of 125 candidates, including 50 women, for the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh
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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday released the party’s first list of 125 candidates, including 50 women, for the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
Addressing a press conference, she said 40 percent of the Congress candidates are women and another 40 percent are youth and by doing so the party is making a new and historic beginning.
She said the party has fielded such candidates who have struggled for seeking justice in Uttar Pradesh and the party wants them to come to the forefront and be a part of power in the state.
“With 40 percent women and 40 percent youth, we hope to start a new kind of politics in Uttar Pradesh,”she said.
“Our list gives a new message. We want to tell those who have struggled for their rights and for seeking justice in the past, that they have the power to fight for their rights and the Congress party will give that power to them to be a part of power in the state,” Vadra also said.
Some of the names mentioned in the first list drew our attention. We mention some of them below.
Unnao rape victim’s mother
Asha Singh, the mother of the 2017 Unnao rape victim has been fielded from Unnao’s Bangarmau, the same seat where Kuldeep Sengar won as a BJP candidate in 2017, and remained the lawmaker till his conviction in the case.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that the BJP had wronged “Unnao’s daughter”. “Now, she [the rape survivor’s mother] will be the face of justice,” he tweeted.