To galvanise the party workers and strengthen the Congress base in the rural areas, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday asked party office-bearers in Uttar Pradesh to spend at least 20 days in districts assigned to them.
Vadra made this call while addressing the UPCC executive meeting through video-conferencing. Besides UP Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu, AICC secretaries Dheeraj Gurjar, Zubair Khan, Sachin Naik, Bazirao Khade and Rohit Choudhary, and over 800 party members and workers attended the virtual meeting.
Stressing that building up the party organisation was the primary responsibility of every office-bearer, Vadra asked them to start spending time in districts from January 3 and stay there for 20 to 22 days.
She said the first and foremost aim of the leaders should be to ensure they added more people in the party and built the cadre stronger in order to fight elections.
Vadra said that each office-bearer would be given charge of one district.
Sources said that the office-bearers would be accountable for the organisation in the district allotted to them.
According to UPCC administrative incharge, Siddharth Priya Srivastava, the Congress general secretary asked them to start work on it from January 3 onwards and added that she asked all office-bearers to encourage grassroots workers of the organisation.