Express News Service
LUCKNOW: After tasting a crushing defeat within the not too long ago concluded meeting elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress is weighing three choices to make sure the social gathering’s revival and strengthen the organisation from the grassroots within the nation’s politically most vital state.
As per extremely positioned sources of the social gathering unit in UP, AICC common secretary and social gathering’s UP in-charge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in session with state management, has thrashed out the three choices for the revival of the grand previous social gathering in
UP. She has put the three solutions earlier than the social gathering nationwide president Sonia Gandhi for her perusal and obligatory motion.
Significantly, the social gathering which dominated Uttar Pradesh until 1989, might win simply two seats within the state meeting polls of 2022. In reality, the Congress efficiency has been on a downward trajectory for the reason that 2012 Assembly elections when the social gathering had received 28 seats with 11.63 per cent vote share.
Its tally got here all the way down to seven seats with 6.56 per cent vote share in 2017 when it fought the meeting polls in alliance with the Samajwadi Party. However, within the not too long ago concluded polls, the Congress tally of seats and vote share each dwindled drastically. While the social gathering tally of seats got here down to 2, its vote share additionally fell to 2.33 per cent.
In order to breathe a brand new lease of life into the social gathering unit in UP, the primary choice, as per the sources, into account is the re-constitution of the Congress Committee below the stewardship of some senior chief as has been the follow thus far.
The second choice, which Priyanka is believed to have thrashed out, is the appointment of four-five working presidents below the management of the state president who can take care of the revival of the social gathering organisation from the grassroots. Meanwhile, as per the third choice, the social gathering would divided the state into 4 main impartial zones — Western UP, Eastern UP, Awadh and Bundelkhand — and arrange impartial committees for all 4 zones.
“Priyankaji has discussed these options with state leaders and office bearers and has sent all the three suggestions for Sonia Gandhi’s perusal. It is to be seen which of the three options the party high command goes with in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections,” mentioned a senior Congress chief in search of anonymity. He added {that a} resolution on these choices is anticipated within the coming month.
It could also be recalled that after the decimation of 2022, the then UP Congress Committee chief Ajay Kumar Lallu had give up from his submit proudly owning up social gathering’s dismal efficiency as its candidates misplaced their deposits in over 399 seats. Even Lallu failed to save lots of his pleasure on his conventional Tamkuhiraj seat in Kushinagar and remained at quantity three place.
In the meantime, the names of some senior state-based leaders together with former UPCC president Nirmal Khatri, former Rajya Sabha MPs and senior leaders Pramod Tiwari and PL Punia, social gathering’s communication cell head Nasimuddin Siddiqui, Acharya Pramod Krishnam and Nadeem Javed are doing the rounds because the attainable contenders for the UPCC chief’s submit.
However, the political actions of the UP Congress had come to a standstill for the reason that resignation of Lallu. Now, the day-to-day actions of the social gathering are being sorted by senior common secretary Dinesh Singh.