Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is on Friday attending the meeting of the party’s election panel in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow. She is set to interact with party leaders to get their feedback on the selection of candidates ahead of the crucial UP assembly elections scheduled to be held next year.

Priyanka Gandhi, who reached Lucknow on Thursday, will conduct an organisational review and is also likely to visit Rae Bareli, the Lok Sabha constituency of Congress president and her mother Sonia Gandhi. She may also go to Amethi, once the family’s bastion.

As part of this,  Congress will conduct a Pratigya Yatra in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the state Assembly polls scheduled next year. The decision was taken in the meeting of the Advisory and Strategy Committee of the UP unit of the party chaired by Congress's Uttar Pradesh in-charge Priyanka Gandhi. The Pratigya Yatra will cover 12,000 kms.  Congress has also decided to start zone-wise election campaigns and programmes during the meeting.

In the 2017 Assembly elections, the BJP won a landslide victory winning 312 Assembly seats. The party secured a 39.67 percent vote share in the elections for 403-member Assembly. Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, BSP won 19 while Congress could manage to win only seven seats. 

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