Uttarakhand PCC president Kishore Upadhyaya said that he along with Chief Minister Harish Rawat and Uttarakhand party in-charge Ambika Soni had met the Congress president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Tuesday. “The party president asked us about how things were going on regarding the party’s membership drive. Besides, she enquired into the criteria according to which the state government has allocated daayitva (political appointment as chairman or deputy chairman of the committees) to the party leaders/ workers. She also sounded inquisitive into the state of things regarding governance and development of the state. We talked about the party gearing up to face the 2017 state Assembly election, the strategy and the like,” he said.
Upadhyaya further said they have apprised the party supremo of the hard work they are putting on the membership campaign that would continue till June 15. “For this, we have given individual target to each of the party workers. As far as political appointment is concerned we have set tough criteria and we are seeing to it that only those who fulfill the criteria are given the appointments,” the state Congress chief said.