Priyanka Gandhi holds strategy meet with U.P. Congress leaders, to visit Lucknow this week

The Congress general secretary will take stock of the situation in the State in the run up to the Assembly polls next year.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will visit Lucknow this week to hold meetings with party functionaries which will be followed up by tours of other districts of the State aimed at energising the party cadre and preparing the organisation for a pitched electoral battle against the BJP, sources said Monday. Ahead of her visit to Lucknow, which is expected to begin on July 14, Priyanka Gandhi on Monday brainstormed with senior Congress leaders from Uttar Pradesh on the preparations for the next year's Assembly polls and during the meeting, the party resolved to hit the streets against the BJP government over issues such as unemployment, price rise and law and order. With the Congress seeking to intensify organisational activities in the run up to the polls, Priyanka Gandhi held a virtual meeting with the party's advisory council to the general secretary and the working group on strategy and planning for the State.