‘Both me and Mr Azad will jointly reach out to people’
Srinagar: The state Congress is scheduled to host a series of retrospective meetings wherein reasons for its debacle in just concluded Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be deliberated threadbare.
Confirming it to KNS, Prof Saif-u-Din Soz, president Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) said that the party has called a meeting of its block presidents of Rajouri-Poonch on Saturday. “After Rajouri-Poonch, we will hold a meeting of block presidents of Sambha, Kathua and Jammu to know what were the factors that led to our defeat in the juts concluded elections,” Soz told KNS.
He said that with these meetings, the party will also kick start its election preparedness drills for the upcoming assembly elections in the state. The PCC president however, informed that the party has not taken any decision with regard to forging pre poll alliance with its coalition partner National Conference in the state for the upcoming assembly elections.
“I hope a decision will be taken very soon and whatever the decision, the same will be arrived at taking party’s interests into active consideration,” he added. Soz informed that senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is arriving in Jammu on Monday where he will meet people to express gratitude to them for supporting him in the just concluded elections. “Both me and Mr Azad have decided to reach out to people of the state jointly to strengthen the party at the grass root level. The workers of the backbone of a party and we will try our best to hear him patiently and try our best to address his grievances,” Soz added.