Smartphones, scooties for girls if voted to power: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in UP

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 21

Congress general secretary for Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said the Congress, if voted to power in the state, would provide Class XII pass girls smartphones and graduate girls a scooty each.

“Yesterday I met some girl students. They said they need smartphones for their studies and safety. I am happy to announce that today the UP Congress has decided, with the consent of the manifesto committee, that we will provide smartphones to inter-pass girls and electronic scooties to graduate girls on forming its government,” Vadra tweeted.

The tweet follows a previous announcement by Vadra of giving 40 per cent of all Congress tickets in the upcoming UP elections to women.

The Congress officially hailed the decision saying, “It is remarkable. The party-ruled states in other places have also always worked to empower girls and women.”

Vadra tagged in her tweet a photo with a group of school and college students interacting with the media.

One of the students is seen saying that Vadra asked them if they had phones for clicking selfies. “We said we neither have phones nor are they allowed in colleges. She then asked us if she should get it announced that girls should get phones and we said what more can we ask for our safety,” the student said in the video.

“She asked us to study hard. I want that she continues to meet and talk to us like this,” another student is seen saying in the video.