Team News Riveting
Lucknow, November 14
All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the grand-old party will not align with any other party for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Priyanka on Sunday said the party would contest all 403 seats alone in the state, 40 per cent of which will be offered to women as announced by her earlier.
Addressing the Congress party’s “Pratigya Sammelan-Lakshya 2022” in West UP’s Bulandshahr, she also said that only Congress workers would contest from the party ticket. “We will nominate only Congress workers for all seats. If Congress has to win, it will win on its own,” she said.
The Congress General Secretary put to rest the speculations of back-channel negotiations with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajvadi Party (SP). “Be it COVID-19 or any other crisis, it is the Congress workers that came to help people. Did SP or BSP fight for Unnao, Lakhimpur or Hathras? But we did!” she asked.
She stressed strengthening the party at the booth level as it could help expand footprint. Priyanka also asked party workers to be active on social media and post all party activities on various social networking platforms.
With Congress General Secretary refusing to go for any alliance, the multi split of opposition votes in Uttar Pradesh is now imminent.
Congress had won just 7 out of the 403 assembly seats in the state in the last assembly elections. More recently, Rahul Gandhi lost his Amethi seat to BJP’s Smriti Irani in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
