After formation of Congress committees at the Bazaar, booth and village levels, the party organisation is holding district-wise meets of the heads of such committees. The Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee vice president Jot Singh Bisht said this while addressing the media at the Congress Bhawan here on Sunday.
Stating that the planned meetings will be an attempt to felicitate the party activists active at the grass roots level, the PCC vice president said that the meetings will begin on July 11 involving heads of the bazaar committee, the Haldwani Mahanagar Congress Committee, booth and village committees of the party. This will be followed by similar meetings of Purola district Congress committee at Naugaon on July 18, of Uttarkashi district committee of the party in Uttarkashi on July 19 and in Rudraprayag on July 20. The Kotdwar district Congress committee meeting will be held at Kotdwar on July 26 followed by meeting of the Pauri district committee at Pauri on July 27 and of the Devprayag Congress committee on July 28 followed by Tehri’s party committee meeting on July 29. Bisht further said that along with the PCC chief Kishore Upadhyay, office bearers of the various Congress committees and office bearers of various party cells and committees at the village, block and district levels will also be in attendance at the meetings. He informed that since the procedure of formation of village, bazaar and booth level Congress committees was started during July 2015, the formation tasks have been completed in most of the Vidhan Sabha constituency areas. After the formations, the party is now focusing on strengthening the organisational structure of the Congress party at the ground level through the scheduled meetings. The PCC vice president further said that the meetings will also include acknowledgement of the party cadre who participated in the party’s loktantra Bachao Yatra during the 55 days of imposition of the president’s rule in Uttarakhand. The office bearers will interact with the ground level party workers throughout the day. Based on the information received from the grassroots level party workers, the party will start work ion preparation of the Congress road map for the coming Vidhan Sabha election. Bisht went on to inform that a total of eight district meets will be held during the month of July while 21 district level meets will be held during the month of August. After this, a two-day convention will be held during the month of September involving the village, bazaar, booth and other committees of the party from across the state. The Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will also be invited to this convention for providing guidance to the party cadre, added Bisht.