Lucknow: Before the Lok Sabha elections, Congress had distributed ‘Guarantee Cards’ to many families. In this, a promise was made to give Rs 1 lakh every year to the female head of every poor family. Rahul Gandhi’s statement of money coming into the account with a sound like ‘khata khata khata khata’ was also much discussed. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also targeted Rahul Gandhi by imitating this sound like ‘khata khata khata’.
After PM Modi’s attack, along with Congress, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav also became vocal. Many SP leaders also started creating an atmosphere with this ‘khatak-khatak’. Its effect was also seen in the result. There has been a huge voting in UP in favour of SP-Congress. SP’s seats increased seven times and Congress’s seats increased six times.
Congress-SP government is not being formed at the center, but in view of the date of June 5 announced by Rahul Gandhi, a crowd has definitely gathered at the Congress office in Lucknow. On Wednesday, a large number of women gathered at the Congress office in Lucknow to submit the guarantee card form. Some women were successful in submitting the form, while most were disappointed. The women demanded the guarantee card from the employees present at the office. Some women claimed that after submitting their forms with the details of receiving money, they received receipts from the Congress office.
Most of the women who reached here were Muslim women. Everyone said that they got information that forms were being collected in the Congress office. Even those women who did not have the forms reached the Congress office in the hope that they would get the forms. No one could tell who told them that pamphlets were being collected in the Congress office. The guard has collected about 200 forms in the Congress office.
During the Lok Sabha elections, a pamphlet named Congress Guarantee Card was distributed. It had five guarantees given by the Congress written on it. Various promises were made under the titles of youth justice, women justice, farmer justice, labour justice, shareholding justice.
On Wednesday, the second day after the election results, a rumour spread in the city that forms for giving one lakh rupees annually to women were being submitted at the Congress office. After this, women started reaching the Congress office with pamphlets kept at home. Some had pamphlets while some came empty-handed. When the women reached to submit the filled pamphlets, the Congress leaders came to know about it.
The guard confiscated a part of the women’s pamphlets. Umme Salma and Ayesha Bano, who had come with pamphlets from Shaheed Nagar, said that they were told that the Congress guarantee form was being submitted. They had come here with this hope. Zubaida Bano, who had come from Traffic Line Sadar Bazar, did not have the pamphlet but had come with the hope that if she gets the form, she will fill it and submit it. Shakeel Ahmed from Sadar Bazar also came for the form. Many women including Gulshanbano, Zahida, Shabanam had reached with pamphlets containing Congress guarantee cards. Those who had filled the pamphlets, theirs were deposited. Those who did not have them, were sent back after giving assurance.
State General Secretary Jaikaran Verma says that women came with Congress guarantee cards distributed during the elections. Everyone’s forms have been submitted. They were not aware that the Congress government has not been formed. They were told that if the Congress government comes, all the guarantees will be fulfilled. This is the public’s faith in Congress and Rahul Gandhi. The public is looking towards Congress with hopeful eyes. Farmers stop their vehicles on the way and ask when their loans will be waived off. At the Congress state headquarters, state vice-president of the minority cell Masood Ahmed and district president of the backward class Shamim Qureshi say that this is the justice card of the Congress. If the government is formed, all five guarantees will be fulfilled. Women have come to the Congress headquarters with hope after filling the pamphlets distributed during the elections.