After formally taking over as Congress general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh (East) in National Capital, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will visit the state for four days from February 11 to discuss party’s strategies for upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Priyanka will come to Lucknow along with her brother and party president Rahul Gandhi and general secretary in charge of west UP Jyotiraditya Scindia.
The UP Congress spokesperson Jeeshan Haider said here on Thursday said that Priyanka and other Congress leaders would hold a brief road show from airport to the party headquarters on February 11 and thereafter take a crucial meeting with the state party leaders.
The Congress leaders would be staying in state capital for next three days and will hold meetings with the state leaders on February 12, 13 and 14.
“Priyanka and Scindia will hold meetings with state leaders and fix strategy for the coming Lol Sabha polls in the state,” Mr Haider said.
Rahul will return back on February 11, after joining the road show and introducing her sister and Scindia with the UP leaders.
According to officials, the UPCC headquarters of the state has been revamped and is in the final stage of preparations to welcome the newly-appointed general secretaries.
A senior Congress leader said during their stay, they will meet party workers individually as well as in groups and also meet aspiring candidates, workers and post-holders of the UPCC.
“Their rallies and tours across the state will also be formalised,” he said, adding the leaders will now be pulling the reins entirely and all party decisions will be taken under their guidance.
Meanwhile, the UPCC is preparing to give Priyanka a grand welcome who will be on her first visit to state and the UPCC headquarters after her appointment as AICC general secretary (east UP).
Several rooms of the UPCC headquarters have been refurbished and a newly built media hall will be inaugurated by Priyanka. Apart from this, a room next to the room UPCC Chief Raj Babbar’s on the first floor, has been revamped and is likely to be used by Priyanka for meetings with leaders and party workers.
It is the same space which was once used by Priyanka’s grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
On January 23, Congress president Rahul Gandhi had announced the new posts for Priyanka and Scindia. “I have not sent Priyanka and Jyotiraditya to UP for two months. I have given a mission to them. They are very powerful leaders of the party and I trust they will work for the state. We want to change the state’s politics with these young leaders,” he said.
