Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday made a load of poll promises, including farm loan waiver and purchasing wheat and paddy at ₹ 2500 per quintal.
The Congress leader, Priyanka Gandhi also reached out to farmers and members of the fishing community during the Uttar Pradesh campaigns with powerful poll promises.
She promised, “If the Congress is voted to power, then fisheries will be given the status of agriculture, and it will get all the facilities like agriculture. The rights of the people of the Nishad community will be restored in sand mining and fisheries. Apart from this, a university named after Guru Machendranath will also be set up,” she said.
“The entire loans of the farmers will be waived. Wheat and paddy will be purchased at ₹ 2,500 per quintal, while sugarcane will be purchased at ₹ 400 per quintal. The problem of stray cattle will be resolved on the lines of Chhattisgarh, and a complete solution will be evolved,” she said.
The Congress general secretary also vowed that government jobs will be given to 20 lakh youths, while contractual workers will be regularised.
The Anganwadi workers will get an honorarium of ₹ 10,000, and women will get three free cylinders in a year, she promised.
“Apart from this, if voted to power, our government will bear the cost of treatment of any illness up to ₹ 10 lakh,” she said.
She also said that ₹ 25,000 will be given to families who have lost their livelihood due to COVID-19.
She talked about the poor health conditions in UP and said that Chief Minister Adityanath, who has been a five-time MP from Gorakhpur still did not boost up the health care system. She said, “As elections are approaching, we are hearing that AIIMS will be made functional. But nothing happened for five years. So how do you expect that it will be done now?” she said.
She also said that her party has prepared a separate manifesto for women for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls and promised them free LPG cylinders and travel in government buses if voted to power.
She also said, “Things have happened against the “vaani” (views) of Guru Gorakhnath. Bulldozers were used, threats were made to put people in jail,” she alleged at a rally, hitting out at Mr Adityanath, who is also the head of the prominent Mutt here named after Saint Gorakhnath.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Gorakhpur said that UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is running his government completely against the ideology and teachings of Guru Gorakhnath. She also said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah claimed in Lucknow that criminals could not be seen through binocular in UP, but he was himself sitting next to hardcore criminals and Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni, who has been charged with conspiracy to kill the farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri.
While addressing a jam-packed Public rally at the Champa Devi Park to flag off Congress’s fourth ‘Pratigya Yatra’ here on Sunday, she said,” The rule of Yogi Adityanath is running completely different from the thoughts of Guru Gorakhnath ji. Where people are struggling and help is needed, the government does nothing and the government turns its back.
Manure, agriculture, crops have all been given in the hands of big industrialists.” She said that people standing in queue for fertilizer have died. When I met the family of the deceased farmers, there was nothing. There was no government help, no gas cylinder, only the crying family of that farmer. For those whose jobs ended during the Corona pandemic, the government did nothing for them too. Every day three youths are committing suicide in UP due to unemployment, she claimed.
Priyanka ji said that all the properties of the country have been sold by the Narendra Modi government. Congress made rail, airport, and everything but BJP sold everything in 7 years which were made in 70 years, she said.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that the sugar mills set up by Congress have been closed by the SP, BSP, and BJP governments.
Asking the people to support Congress in the 2022 assembly polls, she said, “Congress will fight for you. I want to give you that power. When 40 percent women will come in politics, they will change agenda of the politics.” Taking a swipe at Yogi Adityanath, Priyanka Gandhi said that since Yogi ji has become the Chief Minister, he does not listen to your problems, he gets on the plane and leaves. They do not see the waterlogging of Gorakhpur.
State Congress Committee president Ajay Kumar Lallu while addressing the public said that the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh never speaks the truth except lying. SP, BJP, and BSP auctioned sugar mills at throwaway prices. The weavers and farmers of UP are disappointed, shocked, and upset. The Chief Minister of our state is a saint, a mahant, but he never speaks the truth except for lies, he added. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said UP Chief Minister is ‘working against the poor people. “In the Nath sect, there is a tradition of embracing the poor and the deprived. Yogi ji, what happened to you that you started running bulldozers in the homes of the poor, you are Yogi Adityanath or the bulldozer Nath?,” he questioned.
Mr Baghel of Congress said that his government has waived loans of crores of rupees of farmers in Chhattisgarh. Congress has taken a pledge to buy paddy for Rs 2500 per quintal. “We know how to keep our promise. Rs 2 a kg cow dung is not bought in any corner of the world but is bought in Chhattisgarh. If the Congress government is formed in UP then, there will be the protection of the crop and farmers will get a fair price for their crops, ” he claimed.
During this meeting, Minority Cell National Chairman Imran Pratapgarhi, Salman Khurshid, PL Punia, Pramod Tiwari, former Union Minister RPN Singh, MP Deepender Hooda, and many senior leaders were also present in the rally.