UP polls: Congress prepares separate manifesto for women

01 Nov 2021 Evaluate

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today announced that her party has prepared a separate manifesto for women for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh (UP) assembly polls. She also promised them free LPG cylinders and travel in government buses if voted to power. Three LPG cylinders will be given for free to women annually.

Earlier, she had announced that her party will give 40% tickets to women in the assembly elections, saying the decision is aimed at making women, who constitute roughly half the vote bank, a ‘full-fledged partner in power’. The assurances also included an honorarium of Rs 10,000 per month to ASHA and Anganwadi workers, appointment of women to 40 per cent posts according to the provisions of reservation, giving pension of Rs 1,000 to old widows, and opening of 75 skill schools across the state that will be named after the brave women (veerangnaao) of UP. UP is slated to go to the polls early 2022.

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