LUCKNOW: Novel coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown that followed had put a brake on political parties’ efforts to reorganise their cadre and organization, but for a short duration.
Many of these political parties like the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are now planning to take up the revival of their state and district-level units soon.
UP NCP will hold a statelevel meeting to devise ways to strengthen the party organization in the state.
State general secretary of the NCP Rampreet Sharma said, “We are yet to decide the meeting date.
But we have been told by the headquarters to start working for assembly elections.” The party has appointed district presidents in at least 67 districts, Sharma said, admitting that the restricted movement due to the lockdown did halt the party’s plans in the state.
Few of NCP office-bearers and their family members also got infected which further affected the party’s efforts in this direction, he added.
NCP had held a state-level meeting in February to take stock of its situation in UP.
The meeting was attended by national level office-bearers of the party.
The state unit of the NCP had finalised a strategy to make inroads in rural UP.
The meeting decided to rev up the organizational structure of the party in the state.
Reaching out to farmers, mainly in the west UP, was highlighted as one of the main poll planks for the party.
Unemployment was another issue that it had planned to harp on to attack the state government and reach out to the youth.
The NCP had set up its office in the state in 2001.
The upcoming state-level meeting will provide clarity on the party’s strategy for UP assembly elections.