Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president Arun Yadav stated that the party's honest and loyal workers would get tickets for the ensuing local body elections and the recommendations made by the district level coordination committees would be given preference in ticket distribution.
Yadav while addressing the first meeting of the local body election committee here on Monday at the party's state headquarters Indira Bhawan said that 80 per cent of the tickets for these elections would be given to the youth.
The meeting was held to discuss and formulate the strategy to ensure the party's victory in the local body elections. It was decided in the meeting to hold a state level convention of party's elected representatives of the local bodies in Bhopal on July 5. The convention would be attended by the Congress mayors, chairmen and corporators from across the state. Similar conventions would also be organized at divisional level. These conventions would help to formulate the strategy for the elections and detailed discussions would be held in this regard in the conventions.
It was also decided at the meeting that the recommendations of the local coordination committees would be preferred in the ticket distribution for the local body elections.
Yadav said that the party workers should get united without losing any time to ensure the party's victory in the ensuing local body elections. "It would be ensured that the youth workers of the party should get maximum tickets for these elections," he added.
He said that the loyal and hard working party workers would be given maximum tickets for the local body elections.