After passing of a month of facing humiliating defeat in the recently concluded Assembly polls, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee had finally decided to hold two day discussions with the district and city unit chiefs to find out the reason behind the debacle. Besides, the leaders will also discuss the future strategy of nailing down the Central as well as State government on the failures to forward promises made during campaigning in elections along with rising prices of essential commodities including heavy charges on bank transactions.
According to spokesman of the UPCC, Dr Hilal Ahmed, the first meeting headed by national general secretary, Gulam Nabi Azad, who is also incharge of Party affairs here in UP, and state president Raj Babbar will be held in New Delhi on coming Saturday. In this meeting, district and city chiefs along with senior leaders hailing from districts which comes under Meerut, Saharanpur, Agra, Moradabad, Aligarh and Bareilly zones respectively will participate.
On the next day, a similar meeting of the Party cadre coming in districts which falls under lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Faizabad, Devipatan, Azamgarh, Mirjapur, Jhansi, Chitrakut, and Allahabad respectively will be held here at UPCC head-quarter in lucknow. Both Azad and Babbar will also attend this meeting. It may be mentioned that Babbar had already offered to resign taking morale responsibility of the Party’s defeat but he is still continuing as the high command not reacted to his move.