Allahabad, April 06: Congress state leadership today met party workers and held discussions to evolve ways for strengthening the party ahead of the 2012 assembly elections.
A workshop was organised here for the grassroot-level workers. UPCC president Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Congress legislative party leader Pramod Tiwari and senior party leader Anil Shastri were present.
Later, Joshi told reporters, “this is one of the many training programmes that we will be conducting in the run-up to the ultimate challenge of 2012 assembly elections”.
She said “in keeping with Rahul Gandhi’s strategy of strengthening the party from the grassroots, we have been conducting membership drives and as of now we have more than 5.5 million dedicated workers in our state unit”.
“With our army of dedicated workers, we are confident of winning back the confidence of the people and forming the next government,” Joshi said.
–Agencies