Congress to give 40 pc of tickets to women in UP assembly polls: Priyanka Gandhi

Lucknow: The Congress will give 40 per cent of tickets to women in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections beginning next year, party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said here on Tuesday.

“We want women in politics to become a full-fledged partner in power,” she told reporters here.

“Today, I am going to talk about our first promise. We have decided that in the upcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress party will give 40 per cent of tickets to women,” Gandhi added.