22 Jan , 2022 By : Kanchan Joshi
LUCKNOW: Congress national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Friday that she might make her electoral debut by contesting in the UP assembly elections, but she shouldn’t be seen as the party’s candidate for the CM’s post.
She told news channel NDTV that contesting the UP elections has been under consideration and internal discussions are on. “When there is a consensus, we will let you know,” said Priyanka, the Congress’s in-charge for UP since 2019.
At a press conference to launch the party’s youth manifesto earlier in the day, she said she was the party’s face in UP. “Are you seeing any other faces from Congress? Then? Dikh toh raha hai na sab jagah mera chehra (My face can be seen everywhere),” she said in response to the question if she was the CM face.
Priyanka, however, told NDTV later that her remarks were “tongue-in-cheek” because every second question she was asked was about this. “Between me, UPCC chief Ajay Lalloo and the CLP leader (Aradhna Mishra), we are leading the efforts in UP. But it is unlikely that we are officially going to announce this face or that face,” she said. “I am the (party) general secretary of Uttar Pradesh. And the responsibility is mine, and I’m dealing with it.”
She also signalled Congress’s willingness to any post-poll alliance in case of a hung assembly, but with a condition. “If such circumstances arise, a decision will be taken accordingly. But if we do, we would certainly want our agenda for the youth and women, especially women, to be fulfilled if we were going to be part of any such dispensation,” Priyanka said.Congress under her leadership in UP has been reaching out to the women electorate and has also decided to field women on 40% of seats the party contests in this year’s polls.
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