Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, June 24
In its first major post-election move in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress said on Monday that it would set up a three-member committee to look into cases of "gross indiscipline" during the recent General Election.
The party also said it would be dissolving all its district committees in the state.
In orders signed by AICC General Secretary organisation KC Venugopal, the party said state legislature party leader Ajay Lallu will be in charge of organisational changes in East Uttar Pradesh for a definite period that will be decided soon
A two-member committee will also be set up to oversee due by-elections in the state.
The AICC in-charge general secretary of West UP will issue separate orders about who would be in charge for organisational changes in western UP, the Congress said.
Congress Jyotiraditya Scindia is the AICC general secretary in charge of Western Uttar Pradesh.
The orders come few days after AICC General Secretary East Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said at a public event that she would find out all about “those who did not work for the party from the heart”.
Congress won just one seat—Sonia Gandhi’s Rae Bareli—out of 80 in UP, losing its only other seat, Amethi, to the Bhatariya Janata Party.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi lost Amethi to Smriti Irani by over 50,000 votes.