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Meet to tone up Cong. organisation

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI MARCH 18. The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, has written to about 8000 block presidents of her party, inviting them to a two-day national convention in Delhi on March 28 and 29. The top leadership of the party, AICC office-bearers and heads of the frontal organisations will also take part in it.

The convention, to be inaugurated by Ms. Gandhi and expected to adopt an action plan on issues concerning youth, farmers, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and women, is the first such exercise by the party in the last 10 years.

It is an attempt to tone up and prepare the organisation for the next round of Assembly polls in October and the general elections in 2004 and part of a series of exercises that the party hopes to undertake in the course of the year to streamline its electoral machinery.

The convention will be followed by a public meeting on March 30. Ms. Gandhi is also working on a plan to reorganise the AICC.

This is expected to be the final shake-up in the AICC as the party enters the election year, and the high command is likely to make substantive changes. The aim is to put people with political and organisational acumen in charge.

The AICC appears geared for the convention. An action plan on each of the issues is being prepared and this will be placed before the delegates. One speaker from the Central team will discuss each of the subjects, after which it will be opened to the floor.

The idea is to encourage the delegates to air their views. The action plan will be the basis on which the party will approach the masses.

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