Priyanka holds strategy meet with UP Cong leaders

New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI):
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will visit Lucknow this week to hold meetings with party functionaries which will be followed up by tours of other districts of the state aimed at energising the party cadre and preparing the organisation for a pitched electoral battle against the BJP, sources said Monday.
Ahead of her visit to Lucknow, which is expected to begin on July 14, Priyanka Gandhi on Monday brainstormed with senior Congress leaders from Uttar Pradesh on the preparations for the next year’s assembly polls and during the meeting, the party resolved to hit the streets against the BJP government over issues such as unemployment, price rise and law and order. With the Congress seeking to intensify organisational activities in the run up to the polls, Priyanka Gandhi held a virtual meeting with the party’s advisory council to the general secretary and the working group on strategy and planning for the state. They discussed the rising prices, the coronavirus situation, the recently held panchayat elections in the state and organisational training camps, sources said. During her Lucknow visit, which is expected to be for three-four days, Priyanka Gandhi will hold meetings with all Pradesh Congress Committee members and district and city presidents from various parts of the states, the sources said.