Assembly Polls 2022: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra releases youth-centric manifesto in UP, promises jobs

Aditi Tandon

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New Delhi, January 21

“Can you see any other face?” Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra quipped on Friday breaking her long held silence on the issue of leadership projection in Uttar Pradesh where the party has been in free fall since 1989.

“You see my face everywhere,” she said after releasing “Bharti Vidhan”, the party’s youth-centric election manifesto along with brother Rahul Gandhi. The manifesto assures 20 lakh government jobs, free examination forms, free transport to students preparing for competitive exams, recruitments to fill a range of vacancies of 1.5 lakh primary school teachers, 38,000 middle school teachers, 8,000 teachers in colleges, one lakh police posts, 20,000 anganwari workers and 27,000 anganwari helpers.

Asked if the Congress, reduced to its lowest tally of seven seats in UP in 2017, was seeking out new constituencies of youth and women, Rahul said the party was only aiming to “give India a new vision”.

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