After suffering a series of defeats in the lok Sabha and Assembly by-elections in Uttar Pradesh, the State unit of the Congress held a meeting of senior leaders here on Sunday to chalk out strategies to revive the party at the grassroot level but many senior leaders preferred to stay away.
The meeting chaired the AICC general secretary and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Madhusudan Mistri along with Uttar Pradesh Congress president Nirmal Khatri and legislature party leader Pradeep Mathur, however yeild no result as several senior leaders gave a miss to this meeting.
Senior leaders Beni Prasad Verma, Salman Khursheed, Raj Babbar, Anil Shastri, RPN Singh and Noor Bano were among the 30 leaders who were specially invited to attend the meeting but they did not attend it.
Briefing reporters about the outcome of the meeting which lasted for about 3 hours, Mistri said that several suggestions were made by the leaders which included more transparent procedure to select candidates for the elections, stringent
discplinary action against the erring leaders, better communication between the leadership and the workers and strengthening of the party organisation.