Candidates decided on 50 seats of Congress

New Delhi: The party’s Central Election Committee, headed by Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, on Saturday discussed the names of candidates for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and candidates have been selected for several seats. Sources said that names have been decided on many seats, which can be announced soon.

Party sources said that Congress General Secretary and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and State President Ajay Kumar Lallu also participated in this virtual meeting. It is being told that the names of 50 candidates have been stamped. The party will soon announce the names of these candidates. This will not only be done before other parties, but it will be done even before the announcement of elections in the state.

Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held early next year. The Congress has recently announced that in the assembly elections, the party will field women candidates in 40 percent of the seats. Priyanka Gandhi has started the election campaign. It is worth mentioning that Priyanka is making efforts to get back the lost ground of Congress, which has been away from the power of Uttar Pradesh for nearly three decades. In the 2017 assembly elections, the Congress could win only seven out of 403 seats in the state, whereas in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, only Congress President Sonia Gandhi had won in Rae Bareli.

Priyanka Gandhi on Saturday flagged off three pledge trips of the Congress from Harakh block of Barabanki and reiterated her pledge to waive off farmers’ debts and give government jobs to 20 lakh youth if the party forms the government. Three pledge yatras of the Congress with the slogan ‘Hum Vachan Nibhange’ – from Barabanki to Bundelkhand, Saharanpur to Mathura and Varanasi to Rae Bareli – have been organized from October 23 to November 1. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra made several important announcements for women, farmers, unemployed, contract workers and families financially devastated by Corona, through her pledges ahead of the assembly elections to be held in Uttar Pradesh early next year.