Summary:
Lucknow, Oct 21 (PTI) After promising 40 per cent tickets to women in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra announced on Thursday that all class 12 pass girls will be given a smartphone while all graduate girls will get an electric scooty if her party forms a government in the state.
"Yesterday I met some girl students.
They said they need smartphones for their studies and their security.
I am happy that today the UP Congress has decided , with the consent of the manifesto committee, that it will provide smartphones to inter pass girls and electronic scooties to graduate girls on forming its government," Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.
Calling it another important decision and second commitment of the party after announcement of giving 40 per cent tickets to women in the coming elections, Congress spokesman Anshu Awasthi said the move is aimed at extending respect and security to the daughters of the state.
Priyanka Gandhi, who is the Congress national general secretary and in charge of party affairs in UP, also attached with her tweet a video of a group of school/college girls interacting with mediapersons.