UP Election: Congress Announces Four More Names. Know Candidates For Pilibhit, Kalyanpur

UP Election: Congress today has released its sixth list of four candidates for the upcoming assembly elections.

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New Delhi: Ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, The Indian National Congress party on Tuesday has released its sixth list of four candidates. 

According to the latest list released by the party, Shakeel Ahmed Noori will contest from the Pilibhit constituency, Azimushhhan from Shahabad while Adishakti Dikshit will contest from Tindwari.

The CEC has selected the following four candidates for the ensuing
general elections to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh pic.twitter.com/EBFqIYKxSj

— INC Sandesh (@INCSandesh) February 1, 2022

The party supplanted its Kalyanpur candidate Gayatri Tiwari with Neha Tiwari. While Gayatri Tiwari is the mother of slain criminal Vikas Dubey's sister-in-law Khushi Dubey, Neha Tiwari is the sister of the latter. 

The party which is entering the Uttar Pradesh polls with women in focus had earlier announced that it will give 40 per cent tickets to women in the UP polls.

On Monday, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi held a Vadra's door-to-door campaign in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and several other constituencies. This was her first physical campaign since the Election Commission banned rallies.

While canvassing votes for party candidate Pankhuri Pathak in Noida, Priyanka said, “All women must realise the power they have. Today, women are not considered politically empowered... why is that? They constitute half the population but are still not taken seriously in politics because they are not united. All women must unite and declare that they want politics for their future, self-reliance, independence and demand a chance to fight,” she said.

She also held a detailed discussion with ASHA and Anganwadi workers, homebuyers, small and medium industrialists, farmers, and women activists.

Uttar Pradesh Assembly is scheduled to go to the polls in seven phases from February 10 to March 7 and the counting of votes will be taken up on March 10.