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Cong. to strengthen party base in U.P.

The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, meeting the people of Bahdurpur on the second day of her three-day visit to Amethi on Friday. Photo: Subir Roy

AMETHI MAY 16. With an eye on the Lok Sabha elections due next year, the Congress is working on a plan to strengthen the party base in Uttar Pradesh and the party president, Sonia Gandhi, will soon undertake an extensive tour of the State in this connection.

"The party is working out an extensive plan to strengthen the party base in the State and soon this plan would be implemented," Ms. Gandhi, who is on a three-day visit to her Amethi parliamentary constituency, told presspersons today.

Terming the defeat of the Congress nominee in the Gauriganj Assembly by-poll recently as the "outcome of the administration siding with the ruling party candidate", she said adding that in future, party workers would be prepared to work with more dedication.

She blamed successive non-Congress Governments in the State for neglecting Amethi due to which her constituency has lagged behind in development. "Still, whatever is possible the Congress is doing for the development of the area through the MP's and MLA's welfare fund," she said.

Ms. Gandhi, who reached here on Thursday, held a meeting of Congress block pramukhs and asked them to strengthen the party at the grassroots.

She also took part in a "Barawafat" function and urged people to maintain communal harmony. — PTI

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