Congress making an attempt to emulate us: TMC on determination to discipline 40% ladies candidates for UP Assembly polls

The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday mocked the Congress over its determination to discipline 40% ladies candidates within the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, and hoped that the transfer to “emulate” the ruling celebration in West Bengal will not be mere “tokenism”. Congress basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had on Tuesday introduced that the celebration will give 40% tickets to ladies, who represent roughly half of the voters, for the UP Assembly polls.

“Under the visionary leadership of @MamataOfficial, AITC has shown the way to ensure increased participation of women in politics in this country. We’re the first party to give 40% seats to women in LS elections!” the TMC mentioned in a tweet.

“Amid such dire times, @INCIndia is understandably trying to emulate, and one can only hope that this is genuine and not tokenism. If they are to be taken seriously, they must give 40% seats to women in states other than UP as well,” it added in a sequence of tweets.

The dig from the Mamata Banerjee led-party comes at a time when each the Congress and the TMC are striving to guide the opposition entrance towards the BJP.

Reacting to the remarks, senior Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya mentioned the grand outdated celebration doesn’t want classes from the TMC on political empowerment of girls.

“It is the Trinamool Congress that is trying to emulate the Congress and poach on our leaders,” he asserted.

Earlier this month, the connection between the 2 events hit a brand new low after the TMC took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi’s defeat from Amethi within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, questioning whether or not the Congress would have a look at erasing the loss by a Twitter pattern.

The TMC has been up in arms towards the celebration over its alleged failure to place up a combat towards the BJP.

TMC mouthpiece ‘Jago Bangla’ had additionally just lately claimed that its supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and never Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, has emerged because the face of the opposition towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi.