State president Raj Babbar finally summoned the officer bearers of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) as well as the city and district units to discuss the poll strategy as well as to make a review of ``27 Saal-UP Behal’ yatra which will conclude on October 9 and the `Deoria se Dilli Kisan Yatra’ of Vice President Rahul Gandhi, which will end in New Delhi on October 6. The meeting called on coming Friday, will be the first interaction of Babbar with his officer bearers after he took charge as State president. Soon after the meeting on Friday, Raj Babbar will left for lalitpur along with other Party leaders, which included chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit to conclude their `27 saal-UP Behal’, yatra. It may be mentioned that Raj Babbar made no changes in the UPCC or it’s district and city units and continue with the same team earlier working under former UPCC chief Nirmal Khatri. The move was made as according to Babbar, the elections were near and it is not easy to constitute a fresh UPCC. However, All India Congress Committee had given fresh hands to Babbar in form of appointing five new senior Vice-President in UPCC besides appointing separate committees in which all the senior leaders of the Party hailing from Uttar Pradesh have been given some or the other responsibility to ensure come back of Congress after 27-years of exile.
Sources in the Congress confirmed that to take first hand account of the feed back about Congress recent Yatras (Deoria se Dilli Kisan Yatra and 27 Saal-UP Behal) directly from the mouth of the Party workers so necessary changes could be made during the proposed campaign programme of the Party, Raj Babbar had summoned all the district, city chiefs of the Congress as well as UPCC office bearers here at lucknow on coming Friday. Babbar will hold a day long meeting with his team members on success of the work taken so far by Party as part of their `Mission 2017’.