Congress to hold conclave to chalk out strategy

• AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh to take part in meeting
• He will also discuss poll plank for GHMC elections with city leaders
• The party may also raise during the campaign the recent encounter in which two Maoists, Shruti and Vidaysagar, were killed

Hyderabad: AICC General Secretary and in-charge of the party in the State, Digvijay Singh, will meet the Congress party leaders from Warangal on Thursday. This is part of the exercise to chalk out a cast-iron strategy for the upcoming Warangal byelection, according to party sources.

Billed to be a crucial meeting, which may stretch out to at least three hours, it is believed that Digvijay Singh would explain the strategy for organising aggressive campaign. Considering this to be the testing grounds for the Congress to know the pulse of the people, the party leaders has taken the election as prestigious issue.

Apart from this, Digvijaya Singh will also sit along with the City leaders for chalking out strategy for GHMC election for at least an hour during the afternoon before leaving for Delhi.

The recent 2-day visit of party in-charge, the party leaders said, had helped rejuvenate the party cadre in Hyderabad and Warangal. He expressed confidence that party would win Warangal byelection, given the failed promises of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao to Dalits who form the bulk of electorate in the Warangal Lok Sabha constituency.

During his interaction with Warangal party cadres, he described the encounter killing of Sruthi and Vidyasagar Reddy as fake and horrific. He wondered as to how a government and the police could act so brutally and inflicted such a brutal pain on a young woman.

He raised the issues promised during the elections including distribution of 3-acres of land to Dalits and establishment of Prof Jaya Shankar Park.