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Gorakhpur (UP): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday hit out at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in her home constituency of Gorakhpur and made a flurry of election promises including farm loan waiver and buying wheat and paddy at Rs 2500 per quintal.
“‘Things have gone against the ‘Vani’ (ideas) of Guru Gorakhnath. Bulldozers were used, people were threatened with jail,” she alleged at a rally, taking a dig at Adityanath, who is the saint of Gorakhnath. The chief of the monastery here is also named after him.
The Congress General Secretary also contacted farmers and members of the fishermen community.
“If Congress comes to power, fisheries will be given the status of agriculture, and it will get all facilities like agriculture. The rights of the people of Nishad community in sand mining and fisheries will be restored. Apart from this, a university will also be established in the name of Guru Makendranath.
“The entire loan of farmers will be waived off. Wheat and paddy will be purchased at Rs 2500 per quintal, while sugarcane will be purchased at Rs 400 per quintal. The problem of stray animals will be solved on the lines of Chhattisgarh and its complete solution will be worked out.
The Congress General Secretary said that 20 lakh youth would be given government jobs, while contractual workers would be regularised.
He promised that Anganwadi workers would get an honorarium of Rs 10,000 and women would get three free cylinders in a year.
Apart from this, if voted to power, our government will bear the cost of treatment of any disease up to Rs 10 lakh, he said.
He also said that Rs 25,000 will be given to the families who have lost their livelihood due to COVID-19.
Targeting Chief Minister Adityanath, who was a five-time MP from Gorakhpur, the Congress General Secretary said that the health condition in the district is bad.
“As elections are approaching, we are hearing that AIIMS will be made functional. But nothing happened for five years. So how do you expect it to happen now?” he said.
The Congress is facing an uphill task of improving the party’s position in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh, where it won only seven out of 403 seats in the last assembly election.
Earlier this month, the Congress general secretary held a rally in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency.
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