PTI, LUCKNOW: Congress in Uttar Pradesh has dissolved its key teams, including those looking after media and organisational matters, and set up an interim panel with the 2019 Lok Sabha election in mind.
“Efforts are on to make the Congress election-ready for the parliamentary polls and drive home the message that it is not a spent force in Uttar Pradesh,” a senior party leader said here today.
UP Congress Committee chief Raj Babbar recently dissolved the teams looking after media, administration, organisational and financial matters in the party’s state unit.
He set up a four-member interim panel to oversee the day-to-day functioning of the party.
Senior leaders Satish Ajmani, Hanuman Tripathi, R P Tripathi and Harish Bajpai form the interim team.
“The UPCC will soon acquire a new look in preparation for the upcoming electoral challenges, especially the Lok Sabha elections in 2019,” Babbar had said.
“We were caught off guard,” a Congress leader said today on the dissolution of the old teams.
Three of the party’s spokespersons in the defunct media committee were also served notice for making statements despite being instructed not to do so.
