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By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh Congress will from Wednesday begin the second phase of its programme to train party workers under which 100 camps will be held to make about 30,000 of its workers ready for the assembly polls next year, party sources said.

The second phase of the party’s ‘Prashikshan Se Parakram Mahaabhiyan’ will begin on Wednesday and continue till September 30.

Under this programme, training will be imparted on five different subjects with a special focus on booth management, the sources said.

Also, training would be given to make best use of social media.

Apart from these two topics, workshops will be organised on “Congress’ ideology, ‘the truth of BJP-RSS’ and ‘who spoiled Uttar Pradesh’.”

Under the ‘Kisne Bigada UP (who spoilt UP)’ header, the shortcomings of the previous rule of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP), besides the present BJP dispensation, will also be highlighted, the sources said.

In the second phase, the party will organise 100 training camps in which about 30,000 workers and office bearers of the party are going to be trained, they said.

A special training task force had been formed for this programme in July, which is carrying out the work of continuous training.

In the first phase of the ‘Prashikshan Se Parakram Mahabhiyan’, the Congress had trained about 25,000 of its workers.

The first phase of the campaign, which lasted for 11 days, seven 40-member master training teams carried out district-wise programmes to train block presidents, ward presidents and nyaya panchayat presidents along with district and city committee officials of the party in all the districts of Uttar Pradesh.

Now this campaign will be carried out assembly-wise, the sources said.

Under the overall campaign, the Congress aims to train two lakh office bearers and workers through 700 training camps.

This campaign will be completed in four phases.

Virtually ruling out an alliance with the SP and BSP for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Congress’ state unit chief Ajay Kumar Lallu had earlier this month said his party will forge alliances only with small parties and will “not even think about” joining hands with the big ones for the elections.

He had also said the governments of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) that have ruled Uttar Pradesh in the last 32 years, when Congress was not in power, failed to live up to the expectations of the people and the Congress was set for a comeback in the state.

By Express News Service

LUCKNOW: The Congress party is gearing up to firm up its poll manifesto for 2022 UP Assembly elections. The Grand Old Party is also set to begin the second phase of its programme to train 30,000 party workers across 100 camps to keep them poll ready under ‘Prashikshan se Parakram’ campaign.

Farm loan waiver, coaching centres for competitive exams, allowance for young and elderly and free electricity are the issues likely to find a place in the Congress poll manifesto for the Uttar Pradesh elections which will be fought under the leadership of AICC general secretary and party’s UP in-charge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

As per the sources, Party Election Committee (PEC), headed by former union minister and senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid, is visiting various districts of Uttar Pradesh to get people’s feedback on the basis of which the party’s manifesto for the 2022 polls will be finalised. Moreover, the party has been running a public campaign on social media and other digital platforms to reach out to common man to gather inputs for their manifesto.

The party manifesto is likely to highlight the development issue of the state, loans on farmers and a possible loan waiver, employment, atrocities on women and how to make them self-reliant. Discussions are on to provide free electricity till 300 units and slashing the rates by 50% for next 200 units, said the party source.

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Moreover, setting up coaching centres at rural level for competitive exams, some allowance is also being worked out for elderly people above 60 in order to secure their future. An allowance for youth may also be a feature of the manifesto.

The sources claimed that the party may come out with its manifesto in December keeping its focus intact on real issues.

The other members of the PEC are Rajya Sabha MP PL Punia, Supriya Shrinate, Vivek Bansal, Amitabh Dubey along with Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee President Ajay Kumar Lallu and MLA leader Aradhana Mishra Mona.

On the other,  the party is set to launch the second phase of its training programme for the 30,000 workers across 100 camps. The programme under which the training is being conducted is titled ‘Prashikshan Se Parakram Mahaabhiyan.’ It will continue till September 30. Under the programme, the Congress has formed a special training task force to train its workers.

As per the party sources, the training would focus on five different subjects with a special emphasis on booth management. The workers will also be trained to make the best use of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter.

During the first phase of the ‘Prashikshan Se Parakram Mahabhiyan’, the party had trained around 25,000 Congress workers during the 11 days of the campaign.

Earlier the training was conducted through district-wise programmes to train block presidents, ward presidents and nyay panchayat presidents. This time, it will be carried out assembly-wise. Under the overall campaign, Congress aims to train two lakh office bearers and workers through 700 training camps. Two more phases will be launched for the same after this.