UP Mission 2022: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to hold regular meets with party workers ahead of assembly elections

Following the massive debacle in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is set to meet ground-level workers from Eastern Uttar Pradesh two days a week in New Delhi, with the aim to strengthen the party ahead of the crucial UP Assembly elections in 2022. 

As per schedule, she will be interacting with Congress party workers between 10 am to 1 pm every Tuesday and Thursday. The party workers are allowed to meet Priyanka without any formal appointment.

Furthermore, in order to connect with the grass-root level workers, she will also visit the state and a blueprint of the visit is being worked upon. It is expected that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will try to get a sense of Congress' organisational conditions on the ground and figure out where the party failed in the state in 2019 elections. As per sources, two such meetings have already taken place.

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On Thursday, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had accompanied her mother and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to her maiden visit to Raebareli after winning in the Lok Sabha elections.
During the visit, she came down heavily at the party workers for not working in favour of the party in the general elections. The Congress leader also told the party workers to be ready for the fight ahead.

Priyanka said that she will find out the name of workers who did not work in favour of the party in the Lok Sabha elections. "You all know about those who worked religiously and I will find out about those who did not work for the party in the elections," she had said.

Priyanka had campaigned vigorously in favour of Congress candidates in UP, especially in Raebareli and Amethi but the party lost all the seats in UP with Raebareli being the only exception.

Earlier on June 13, Congress workers from Uttar Pradesh had also demanded that Congress should project Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as CM face ahead of Assembly election in the state. 

After the Lok Sabha debacle, Priyanka faces an uphill task to strengthen the party cadre in the state in view of the upcoming bypoll and the Assembly elections due in 2022.
Congress suffered a humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections by winning a paltry 52 seats.

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