GG News Bureau
Ghaziabad, 5th Feb. Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday said that for the first time in 30 yrs, Congress is contesting all the 403 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.
“We are fighting with all our might. It’s the first time in 30 years that our party is contesting on all 403 seats,” Priyanka said while holding a door-to-door campaign in Sahibabad and Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh ahead of Assembly polls.
However, Congress star campaigner of UP Sachin Pilot had earlier said that as a “political courtesy” the party did not field any candidate against Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav justifying that the Samajwadi Party did not field any candidate against Sonia Gandhi, when she was contesting from Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh earlier. Sonia Gandhi was elected as a Lok Sabha MP from Rae Bareli’s seat in 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019.
SP president Akhilesh Yadav is contesting from Karhal assembly seat of Uttar Pradesh, while his uncle and chief of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia), Shivpal Singh Yadav is contesting from Jaswant Nagar seat.
Notably, Samajwadi Party (SP) had also not fielded any candidate from the Amethi assembly seat against Rahul Gandhi during the Lok Sabha elections in 2019.
Elections for 403 assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh are scheduled to be held in seven phases starting Feb 10. Voting will be held on February 10, 14, 20, 23, 27 and March 3 & 7. The counting of votes and result declaration will take place on March 10.
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