Congress general secretary and Uttar Pradesh in-charge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra reached Lucknow on Friday to flag off the party’s three-route ‘Pratigya Yatra’ from Barabanki district on Saturday. The yatra will end on November 1 in the Bundelkhand region.
Gandhi will flag off the yatra from the grounds of Harakh Inter College in Zaidpur area of Barabanki. He is also expected to address a gathering on the occasion. The journey will travel via Saharanpur, Mathura, Varanasi and Rae Bareli before terminating at Bundelkhand.
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Former Congress MP and Chhattisgarh in-charge PL Punia said at a press conference at the state Congress office in Lucknow on Friday, “Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, general secretary of the Indian National Congress and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, will flag off all three trips. On this occasion from Barabanki district, Priyanka Gandhi will speak in detail about the seven resolutions being made for the people of Uttar Pradesh.
The first route for the yatra (Varanasi Avadh) will start from Varanasi and end at Rae Bareli, covering the districts of Chandauli, Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, Prayagraj, Pratapgarh and Amethi. This route will be led by Congress leaders Pramod Tiwari, Rajesh and Nadeem Javed.
The second route (Barabanki Bundelkhand) will start from Barabanki and end at Jhansi, covering districts of Lucknow, Unnao, Fatehpur, Chitrakoot, Banda, Hamirpur and Jalaun. The route will be led by Punia, former Union minister Pradeep Jain Aditya and chairman of the media department Naseemuddin Siddiqui.
The third route (West) will start from Saharanpur and end at Mathura, covering Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Moradabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Badaun, Aligarh, Hathras and Agra districts. The route will be led by former Union Minister Salman Khurshid and Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam.
Priyanka had recently announced that if Congress comes to power in Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming assembly elections, it will ensure smartphones and electronic two-wheelers for women and girls.
Priyanka had tweeted on Thursday, ‘I met some students, they said that they need smartphones for studies and security. I am happy that with the consent of the manifesto committee, the UP Congress today decided to give smartphones to the girls passing the intermediate and electronic scooty to the graduate students.
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