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LUCKNOW: After tasting a crushing defeat within the lately concluded meeting elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress is weighing 3 choices to verify the birthday celebration’s revival and make stronger the organisation from the grassroots within the nation’s politically maximum the most important state.
As in line with extremely positioned assets of the birthday celebration unit in UP, AICC basic secretary and birthday celebration’s UP in-charge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in session with state management, has thrashed out the 3 choices for the revival of the grand previous birthday celebration in
UP. She has put the 3 ideas prior to the birthday celebration nationwide president Sonia Gandhi for her perusal and vital motion.
Considerably, the birthday celebration which dominated Uttar Pradesh until 1989, may win simply two seats within the state meeting polls of 2022. If truth be told, the Congress efficiency has been on a downward trajectory because the 2012 Meeting elections when the birthday celebration had received 28 seats with 11.63 in line with cent vote proportion.
Its tally got here right down to seven seats with 6.56 in line with cent vote proportion in 2017 when it fought the meeting polls in alliance with the Samajwadi Celebration. Alternatively, within the lately concluded polls, the Congress tally of seats and vote proportion each dwindled enormously. Whilst the birthday celebration tally of seats got here down to 2, its vote proportion additionally fell to two.33 in line with cent.
With a purpose to breathe a brand new hire of existence into the birthday celebration unit in UP, the primary possibility, as in line with the assets, into consideration is the re-constitution of the Congress Committee below the stewardship of a few senior chief as has been the observe thus far.
The second one possibility, which Priyanka is thought to have thrashed out, is the appointment of four-five running presidents below the management of the state president who can take care of the revival of the birthday celebration organisation from the grassroots. In the meantime, as in line with the 3rd possibility, the birthday celebration would divided the state into 4 primary unbiased zones — Western UP, Japanese UP, Awadh and Bundelkhand — and arrange unbiased committees for all 4 zones.
“Priyankaji has mentioned those choices with state leaders and workplace bearers and has despatched the entire 3 ideas for Sonia Gandhi’s perusal. It’s to be observed which of the 3 choices the birthday celebration top command is going with within the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections,” mentioned a senior Congress chief looking for anonymity. He added {that a} choice on those choices is anticipated within the coming month.
It can be recalled that when the decimation of 2022, the then UP Congress Committee leader Ajay Kumar Lallu had hand over from his publish proudly owning up birthday celebration’s dismal efficiency as its applicants misplaced their deposits in over 399 seats. Even Lallu failed to save lots of his satisfaction on his conventional Tamkuhiraj seat in Kushinagar and remained at quantity 3 place.
Within the interim, the names of a few senior state-based leaders together with former UPCC president Nirmal Khatri, former Rajya Sabha MPs and senior leaders Pramod Tiwari and PL Punia, birthday celebration’s conversation mobile head Nasimuddin Siddiqui, Acharya Pramod Krishnam and Nadeem Javed are doing the rounds because the conceivable contenders for the UPCC leader’s publish.
Alternatively, the political actions of the UP Congress had come to a standstill because the resignation of Lallu. Now, the day by day actions of the birthday celebration are being taken care of through senior basic secretary Dinesh Singh.