Mission UP: Priyanka Gandhi holds marathon meeting with Congress workers to formulate poll strategy

In wake of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Congress is leaving no stone unturned to boost its poll preparations in Uttar Pradesh. Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi held a meeting with the party workers which went on till the wee hours of Wednesday to understand the on ground dynamics of the party in the Eastern region.

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New Delhi: In wake of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Congress is leaving no stone unturned to boost its poll preperations in Uttar Pradesh. Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi held a meeting with the party workers which went on till the wee hours of Wednesday to understand the on ground dynamics of the party in the Eastern region. The meeting happened after her brother and Congress Party president Rahul Gandhi distributed the responsibility of 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh among her and Jyotiraditya Scindia. Rahul Gandhi has placed 41 parliamentary seats under the charge of Priyanka Gandhi and 39 parliamentary segments under Jyotiraditya Scindia. As per reports, she held separate meetings with Congress leaders likely to contest from 12 Lok Sabha seats across the state. Priyanka had a jam packed Tuesday as she first was in Jaipur to drop off her husband Robert Vadra at the ED office and followed it up with a marathon meeting with her party workers in Delhi. Priyanka and Scindia were appointed AICC general secretary in-charge UP east and UP west respectively in January and took charge last week. Among the constituencies placed under Priyanka Gandhi's charge were the key seats of Lucknow, Amethi, Raebareli, Sultanpur, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Phulpur, Allahabad, Barabanki, and Kushinagar. Saharanpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad, Ghaziabad, Mathura, Pilibhit, Dhaurahra, Kanpur, and Farrukhabad, were some of the key constituencies placed under Scindia's charge. The Congress had fared miserably during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections by winning just two of 80 seats in the state.