By way of PTI
LUCKNOW: The Congress’ famous person girls applicants, who entered the election fray as an emblem of combat with the slogan ‘Ladki Hoon, Lad Sakti Hoon’, secured not up to 3,000 votes each and every and needed to even forfeit their deposits.
Dwelling as much as the birthday celebration basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s promise to provide 40 consistent with cent of the tickets to girls applicants, the Congress fielded 148 of them, of which just one – Congress Legislature chief Aradhana Mishra Mona – secured victory.
From Unnao’s Sadar seat, the Congress had fielded Asha Devi, the mummy of a rape sufferer. The grand previous birthday celebration had additionally engaged its workforce from Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh to marketing campaign for her.
On the other hand, Devi bagged just one,555 votes. On Devi’s electoral defeat, her daughter instructed PTI, “My mom has unquestionably misplaced the election, however we need to reinforce the combat of girls and sufferers, and change into their voice. We can now not go into reverse.”
She stated that she evaded coming into the fray this time, towards Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s want, as a result of she used to be younger, and then the Congress fielded her mom Asha Devi. “I will be able to contest the elections in 2027. I’ve already began arrangements,” the rape sufferer asserted.
The Congress had fielded Sadaf Jafar, who used to be jailed throughout the agitation towards the Citizenship (Modification) Act and the Nationwide Check in of Voters, from the Lucknow Central Meeting seat. On the other hand, Jafar may just get best 2,927 votes.
She stated, “The media polarised the election and made it best BJP vs SP, so other people didn’t vote for different applicants. However I’ve began getting ready for the following elections. Whether or not I lose or win, I will be able to proceed my combat for the folks of my space.”
Nida Ahmed of Sambhal, who entered politics leaving at the back of tv journalism, additionally campaigned vigorously as a Congress candidate. Since Nida belonged to a political circle of relatives of Sambhal, she commanded reputation a number of the public, however may just now not flip it into a competition in her favour.
Nida secured best 2,256 votes. She instructed PTI, “I used to be cheated within the polls. I had over 150 votes of my circle of relatives from two cubicles. However the EVMs on the ones polling cubicles registered best 5 votes from each the cubicles. Did my husband, my oldsters and siblings now not vote for me?”
“The votes of the general public used to vanish.. now the votes of the circle of relatives, too, have disappeared. I’ve unquestionably misplaced the election, however I’ve now not misplaced braveness. I will be able to come again within the fray once more and win,” she added.
Congress candidate from Hastinapur Archana Gautam has been ‘Pass over Cosmo International 2018’, and ‘Pass over UP 2014’. She is a graduate in Mass Conversation and used to be the Dalit face of the Congress. Gautam used to be additionally trolled for dressed in a bikini.
She secured just one,519 votes. “I were given little or no time for campaigning. I entered the fray 15 days previous to the polls, and on this quick span of time, I campaigned in about 100 villages,” she stated. Gautam stated she used to be dissatisfied with the defeat and used to be getting ready for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections if Priyanka Gandhi Vadra gave her a possibility.
Any other candidate Ritu Singh had contested the elections from Lakhimpur Kheri’s Mohammadi Meeting. Within the panchayat elections, she used to be confused and her garments have been pulled. It used to be after this incident that the Congress basic secretary met her and were given her to contest the Meeting polls.
On the other hand, Ritu were given simply 2,419 votes. Neha Tiwari, the elder sister of Khushi Dubey, a co-accused in Kanpur’s notorious Bikru case, used to be fielded by means of the Congress from Kalyanpur Meeting seat in Kanpur. Although a number of outstanding leaders of the birthday celebration campaigned fiercely for her, she were given best 2,302 votes.
Uttar Pradesh Congress spokesperson Ashok Singh stated the election result of its girls applicants will likely be reviewed. He stated there is not any unhappiness within the birthday celebration because of their defeat and the Congress will nonetheless proceed to paintings for girls.