NEW DELHI: As part of the preparations for the Congress plenary to be held next month in Hyderabad, the organising committee of the All India Congress Committee held a meeting to review the preparations for the event and decided to send a team to the State during the last week.

Among other things, the Committee under the chairmanship of Motilal Vora took stock of the preparations till date and also decided that the State units of the party organise its reports and collect dues from the AICC members. A team of AICC leaders is to visit Hyderabad on December 27 to review the arrangements.

The draft committees constituted by the AICC also met separately. It is understood that the committees have been asked to prepare drafts by January 2 and after initial reading would be sent to the Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her approval. The party would adopt four resolutions at the January 21 to 23 plenary including one each on political, economic, international and agriculture.

Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and the State Congress chief, K.Keshava Rao, arrived here to take part in the meeting. Mr. Rao said the plenary would be "simple, effective and purposeful.'' The organising committee decided to issue photo identity cards to the nearly 15,000 delegates, support staff and media.

Asked the possibility of elections to the Congress Working Committee, Mr. Rao said the issue did not figure in the meeting on Friday. Speaking to correspondents separately, the Chief Minister dismissed the CPI (M) compliant to the Prime Minister against the Polavaram project as "misleading.'' He said the State Government was prepared to make its case before the Prime Minister and said the CPI (M) approach negated its own leader late P. Sundaryya, who, he said, had termed Polavaram as "god's gift to coastal areas.''

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