Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Congress national secretary,
launched three pratigya yatras on Saturday and offered five additional pledges,
namely waiving farm loans and reducing power bills, the advance of the 2022
Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.
If the Congress wins control in Uttar Pradesh, the pledges
include 20 lakh administration jobs, a minimum confidence price of 2500 per
quintal for wheat and paddy, a state consulting price (SAP) of 400 per quintal
for sugarcane, halving power bills, rescinding dues from the Covid-19 time
frame, and monetary incentives of twenty-five thousand to Covid-19 victim's
communities.
So far in the run-up to the parliamentary elections,
Congress has made seven pledges. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra pledged 40 per cent
party seats to females in the assembly elections, cellphones to 12th class
passing girls, and scooters to postgraduates previously this week.
"Until females show headway and engage in governance,
we would not be ready to carry about progress and settle some concerns."
To make sure that women are competent in winning their fights, Congress
intends to allocate 40% of tickets to them. We're releasing a second manifesto
for females, and one of the pledges stated in the manifesto for women, which
will be presented in a week, is that girls will get cellphones and electric
scooters. Priyanka Gandhi remarked this during her brief speech at an
event marking the start of one of the pratigya yatras from Harakh Bazar in
Barabanki, roughly 40 kilometres from the Lucknow.
"Hamari saat pratigyayen, hum vachan nibhayenge" Which means that their seven pledges, they will keep. This is the tagline for the pratigya yatras.
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Varanasi and Saharanpur were the starting points for the
other two yatras. The yatras will go across the state's major cities, towns,
and villages until 1st November. After Diwali, the Congress will begin its
fourth yatra from Gorakhpur.
Priyanka utilised the opportunity to criticise Prime
Minister Narendra Modi for failing to fire the union minister of state for
home Ajay Kumar Mishra Teni, whose son Ashish Mishra was detained on
3rd October concerning disturbances in Lakhimpur Kheri.
The politician and his son have rejected the latter's suspicion
of participation in the event on numerous occasions.
She further said that they all are familiar with how
farmers have been killed by the Narendra Modi government's son of a politician.
This episode exemplifies how the Modi administration handles farmers. The
suspect's father is still an official in the Modi administration. Congress had
already eliminated loans totalling 72,000 crores. Farmers' loans will be waived
once more, and power prices will be cut in halves. The Chhattisgarh
administration is paying $2500 per quintal for paddy. They will pay the
same price for paddy. Sugarcane growers will also receive SAP of $400 per
quintal.
She claimed that she has met a handful of temporary workers
in the past couple of years and that if her party is elected to power, they
will be able to keep their jobs.
Priyanka Gandhi had a short conversation with a bunch
of females in a rice field near Barabanki before announcing the seven pledges.
The females were observed providing her with jaggery and food.
She explained that she arrived there to learn about
their concerns and the current situation.