22 June : With Congress determined to improve its performance in Bihar assembly polls and return to power in Uttar Pradesh, party President Sonia Gandhi has said a mass contact programme has been launched in both the states.
“The Congress party has launched a mass contact programme in the country, with special attention being paid to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar,” Gandhi said in her ‘Letter to Congress persons’ in the latest issue of party mouthpiece ‘Congress Sandesh’.
While Bihar goes to polls in October-November, Assembly elections in UP are scheduled for early 2012.
She said the workers of the party “must concentrate” on reaching out to the people, especially in rural and remote parts of the country so that Congress party’s focus on the common man genuinely addresses their needs.
“It is the duty of our party workers to ensure that all schemes promulgated by the UPA government at the Centre are fully implemented at the grassroots,” Gandhi said.
Eulogising Congress workers, she said they can become the “vehicles for the success of all our social developmental programmes”.