Sonia Gandhi calls high-level Congress meet on Nov 2 to take stock of planned nationwide agitation

New Delhi: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has called a high-level meeting of the general secretaries of the party along with presidents of frontal organisations, on November 2 to discuss organisational issues. 

The meeting will be conducted at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) general headquarters in New Delhi at 5 pm. The Congress chief earlier held a similar meeting on Friday. The meeting on Saturday is the second such since the announcements of the results of the Haryana and Maharashtra State Assembly elections. 

Through these meetings, Congress wants to ensure that it has a plan to build a narrative around various issues grappling the country such as economic distress, agrarian crisis and unemployment. 

The party will also take stock of its planned nationwide agitation between November 5-15 on PSU disinvestment and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, joblessness etc. 

The 72-year-old matriarch of Congress took reigns of the party on August 10 following her son Rahul Gandhi stepping down from the position of party



president.

In the recently concluded Assembly elections, Congress improved upon its 2014 tally in both Haryana and Maharashtra.

Bolstered by a better-than-expected show in both the states and BJP reducing its seat count, the grand old party wants to make sure that it can exploit any anti-incumbency if any. 

Congress won 44 seats and its ally the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) won 54 seats out of 288 seats in Maharashtra. In Haryana, under Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Congress doubled its 2014 tally by securing 31 seats in 90-member Haryana Assembly, emerging the second-largest party in the state. 

In Maharashtra, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had contested on a lesser number of seats compared to Congress but its outperformed the grand old party. The NCP won 54 seats and the Congress won 44.

The BJP won 105 seats with leading on 1 and Shiv Sena got 56 seats respectively.

BJP clinched 40 seats in the 90-member Assembly in the recently concluded Haryana elections, six short of the majority mark, while JJP won 10.