The Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay, Chief Minister Harish Rawat, cabinet minister Dinesh Aggarwal and a number of PCC office bearers attended a meeting held on Monday in view of the coming Vidhan Sabha elections. The meeting also focused on arrangements for the meeting slated in the coming days to be attended by the party’s state in charge Ambika Soni on November 2. Contenders for the party ticket from Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Dehradun district were also among those present in the meeting held on Monday with delilberations being focused on the planned programmes of the party. Providing this information, the PCC vice president Jot Singh Bisht said that a meeting is slated to be held by the party on November 2 at the chief minister residence on New Cantt Road on the subject of preparation for the 2017 Vidhan Sabha elections. The All India Congress Committee general secretary and Congress state in charge Ambika Soni is slated to attend this meeting which will also be attended by PCC office bearers of the State, district and city levels, auxiliary organisation heads, heads of various party cells and departments along with senior PCC leaders. Bisht further informed that the PCC has also organised various programmes in different parts of the state. These include a multi-purpose camp to be presided over in Banjarawala by cabinet minister Dinesh Aggarwal on November 6 and on November 8 in the Raipur block office. A multi-purpose camp will be organised under the Cantt Vidhan Sabha constituency area in Sadhuram inter college on November 10 in addition to which a ‘lok Tantra Bachao Yatra’ will also be organised at Bannu school ground on November 12. The PCC vice president further informed that the party is also slated to organise Vikas Yatras in all the five lok Sabha constituencies of the state from November 19 to December 9. This campaign will begin from Khanpur on the 100th birth anniversary of former prime minister Indira Gandhi on November 19 and pass through the five parliamentary constituencies of the state to conclude on the Parade Ground in Dehradun on December 9, the birthday of Congress national president Sonia Gandhi, said Bisht.