New Delhi: After Rahul Gandhi reviewed theUttar Pradesh poll debacle, another review committee led bysenior leader A K Antony would go into the causes of theCongress rout in UP and Goa as also the shock defeat in Punjaband the performance in Uttarakhand.
Party sources said the constitution of the informalcommittee by the Congress chief sometime back showed that theparty wants to set its house in order by taking lessons fromthe Assembly polls to make the party battle ready ahead of theLok Sabha elections in 2014.The Antony committee has already met some senior leaders from Uttarakhand and Punjab and is expected to meet leaders from UP in the next two-three days. A drastic overhaul of the Uttar Pradesh congress
committee is on the cards and plans are afoot to divide the state organisationally in four to five zones so as to get the party's act together at a time when regional parties Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party are calling the shots for the past decade in the state's politics.
After reviewing the Uttar Pradesh poll debacle, Rahul Gandhi had on Friday warned against indiscipline in Congress and vowed to bring the party back to good days in the state.
Winding up the two-day exercise, Gandhi had declared he is not the one to accept defeat and that he would turn the party's fortunes in the state.
The Congress meeting felt the "confusion" over the minority quota cost the party dear. The party's poor showing in Amethi and Rae Bareli, the pocket boroughs of the Nehru-Gandhi family, also figured at the meeting.
Gandhi said the party's seats, as also the percentage of votes, has increased and now it should be the party's endeavour to become the alternative in the state. "Don't expect kid gloves treatment from now on.It will be firm steps," was the message of Gandhi at the review meeting which concluded om Friday.
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